Experience

“It has been said that we are energy having a human experience, and it is this energy that the creative mind thrives upon.”

NOURISH Gallery | Benjamin Provo | Kathryn Robinson-Millen | Carl Barnett

It is within the realm of personal experience that life evolves, becoming deeper and wider. It is also through the creative endeavor that our experiences are expressed and shared, through the commonality of being human. It has been said that we are energy having a human experience, and it is this energy that the creative mind thrives upon. Through the creative endeavor, we are uplifted, guided through the terrain of living.

NOURISH Gallery | Vulpe Works | Laura Kastin

“This is why we create and collect, to better understand our being human, soothing and inspiring through the creative endeavor and beauty.”

NOURISH Gallery | Laura Kastin | Liadain Warwick Smith | Gaia Starr | Carl Barnett | SENTIENT

The created object is a documentation of life experience, how we see ourselves in the world, and the world itself. It is a mirror and window, tool for resolution and salve for healing. This is why we create and collect, to better understand our being human, soothing and inspiring through the creative endeavor and beauty. It is within the built environment and the created object we nestle and thrive, creating joy and possibility through our ways of living and personal experience.

NOURISH Gallery | Tony Novel | Laura Kastin | Benjamin Provo | Carl Barnett

“This is what life is, our ways of being human, as we twirl around the sun, amidst experience and possibility.”

NOURISH Gallery | SENTIENT | Gaia Starr | Liadain Warwick Smith

To see beauty through life’s experiences is to live fully, acknowledging the cohesion of the beautiful and the ugly: the perfectly imperfect. This is what life is, our ways of being human, as we twirl around the sun, amidst experience and possibility.

NOURISH | Carl Barnett Design | Long Island, NY Project

Energy And Beauty

“We are born from beauty and energy, an ever-changing state of flux, from birth to death and back again.”

NOURISH Gallery | Gabriel J. Shuldiner

Beauty has a depth that speaks profoundly to our human experience: the perfectly imperfect, awe, wonder, and joy. It is the reflection of who we are, our honest and purest selves. We are born from beauty and energy, an ever-changing state of flux, from birth to death and back again. Energy and beauty have no limits.

NOURISH Gallery | Benjamin Provo

We are a mirror to the universe, black in our unknown depths, and expansive in our energy that sometimes consumes and explodes. This is our being human, as we mimic our surroundings while expressing what’s within, evolving and burning with energy, as we slowly burn out. This is where we come from and perhaps where we go, again. We are of starlight, the beauty of blackness that has no edge. 

NOURISH | Nicole Patel

In meditation, we are encouraged to go within, into the beauty and blackness of the original self, before social dogma intervened. Within the conscious self, we discover the edgeless human, being, the boundless void of internal and external life. This is who we are, where we’ve come from, and where we eventually return. 

NOURISH Gallery | Carl Barnett

The Built Environment

“Nature, beauty, and the creative mind inspire better living, through experience and action.”

NOURISH Gallery | Gaia Starr | Kathryn Robinson-Millen | Liadain Warwick Smith

It is within the built environment that life is structured, where possibility hovers waiting to be seen, despite our belief system otherwise. Nature, beauty, and the creative mind inspire better living, through experience and action. This is where we are seen, heard, and reflected. Who we are, where we are, and where we wish to go. 

Robert Stilin

The ceramic work of Kathryn Robinson-Millen is influenced by architecture and nature, inspiring the way we live and even think. Her work asks us to engage through the botanical arranging of her sculpted vessel forms. This activity and the active engagement with her work, elevate our experience of living, bringing joy, stillness, and a deeper appreciation for our surroundings.

NOURISH Gallery | Kathryn Robinson-Millen

It is through the built environment, nature and the creative endeavor that life is elevated, where we are given opportunity to build a better way through effort and personal choice. How we surround ourselves with people, space and things influences our mindset and those within our circles of living. 

Carl Barnett | NOURISH

Making And Collecting

“Bringing joy and resolve through beauty and the creative mind.”

NOURISH Gallery | SENTIENT | Gaia Starr | VULPE | Liadain Warwick Smith | Kathryn Robinson-Millen | Carl Barnett

The relationship between object, space, and person is a telling one, speaking to who we are, our human condition of needs and wants. Making and collecting is a means of communicating, giving weight to our transitory experience of living. Bringing joy and resolve through beauty and the creative mind.

NOURISH Gallery | Laura Kastin | SENTIENT

“A rising tide, raises all boats. A creative mind, inspires.” 

NOURISH | Liadain Warwick Smith | Kathryn Robinson-Millen

Within the creative arenas are the seeds of possibility, easing life forward through the salve of beauty and our beautiful mind. We have the capacity for change, and to uplift. A rising tide, raises all boats. A creative mind, inspires. 

NOURISH Gallery | Benjamin Provo

Each Creative Endeavor

“Each creative endeavor opens up possibilities by way of beauty, resolve and insight.”

NOURISH Gallery - Kathryn Robinson-Millen

All creative gestures are conversations, they can be seen as mirrors, windows, and doors to who we are and wish to become: our fears, joys and visions of the future coming. Each creative endeavor opens up possibilities by way of beauty, resolve and insight.