Lee Lee, Ankor Shrine, Oil on Canvas, 2007
Spirituality and Materialism
There has been an undeniable rapid change of human life throughout the past several decades. Specifically, how humans experience time, space, matter and individuality. These changes will demand or reflect major adjustments in human behavior. The ever evolving and continual creation of products make life easier. The byproduct is an unquenchable desire for more and a loss of meaning. The true materialist never appreciates what they have already procured because they are caught up in the quest for successive and unprecedented acquisition. Materialism rejects anything intellectual or spiritual. Conversely, the spiritual is focused solely on the non-physical reflecting a strong drive for a true self.
Mid-level and established artists will be utilizing encaustic, mixed media, paintings, printmaking, photography as a vocabulary to express their varied perspectives on the dichotomy of values associated with the material and the spiritual.
