This Is Who We Are

December 7, 2022 Carl Barnett

“This is who we are and the good that we can do.”

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Carl Barnett - Untitled Painting**

By supporting the makers we support ourselves, elevating our living through empathy and beauty. This is who we are and the good that we can do. Our inherent humanity of resolving and inspiring through the creative mind, and endeavors towards change.

**NOURISH Gallery** | Liadain Warwick Smith - Sculptural Vessel Circle Series | SENTIENT - Straight Edge Table In Oak With Wishbone Base | Carl Barnett - Untitled Painting In Acrylic | VULPE - Siggi chair in Ash And Blackened Steel.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Carl Barnett - Untitled Painting In Acrylic.**

The Creative Mind And Who We Are

November 1, 2022 Carl Barnett

“Beauty is a salve, that eases our being human.”

**NOURISH** **| Carl Barnett Design | Long Beach NY project**

It is through beauty we see ourselves, whether it be nature or the hand-created. Living with the hand-created reflects and nourishes who we are. It tells and reaffirms our story of how we wish to live, and what we hold to be near and dear: our beliefs, desires, and visions for the future coming. Beauty is a salve, that eases our being human.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| OANDI - Finial Vessel 2**

“Beauty and the hand created gives substance, texture, and weight to our experience of being human.”

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Gabriel J. Shuldiner**

Beauty and the hand created give substance, texture, and weight to our experience of being human. They express our conscious self, our light, and the energy of where we’ve come from, what we are made of, and what we can achieve through effort and knowing who we are.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Sandra Matasick**

“Change comes through creativity, the energy of mind and body.”

**NOURISH Gallery** **| SENTIENT - Natural Edge Table**

By expressing ourselves, we see ourselves, through the creative mind and act of doing. Change comes through creativity, the energy of mind and body. The act of expressing, curiosity and vulnerability.

Sense Making And Creating

October 23, 2022 Carl Barnett

“Making sense of life and ephemeral emotion, through the physical act of creating.”

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Concrete Poetics** **- Large Vessel 1**

Why we create and collect is to express and identify with the connectedness of being human. Making sense of life and ephemeral emotion, through the physical act of creating. This is a reflection of who we are, creativity, energy, beauty, and the alchemy of possibility: building, rebuilding, failing, and trying. To find the universal seed within and merely being. Seeking through curiosity who we are as we build the winding path of where we’re going. Through beauty and the universal language of creativity, we shine a light and ease the ills of the human condition.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Peter Valcarcel - Double Line Gray**

The Beautiful Ugly Of Being Human

October 20, 2022 Carl Barnett

“It is here within, we thrive, a little easier, a little lighter.”

The creative arenas are an act of contribution, an act of beauty, shedding light and easing our ills of being human. This is what the creative endeavor does, what the creative mind can do. It is through beauty and the creative endeavor that life is elevated, where we are seen, heard, and embraced. It is here within, we thrive, a little easier, a little lighter.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Liadain Warwick Smith**

“Bringing purpose and shining a light forward.”

Through the intuitive process of the handmade, we dig, sift and discover what it means to be human: beauty, the perfectly imperfect, and the ephemeral. This is why we create and collect, or consult with an interior designer or architect, to ease and express our experience of living. Bringing purpose and shining a light forward.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Alex Olson Arts LLC**

“The beautiful ugly of being human.”

It is I believe, an inherent aspect of creating to be a mirror and salve to who we are. The beautiful ugly of being human. A means to communicate, resolve and bring joy through beauty. This is who we are, our means towards what’s possible, our digging, our sifting, our trying.

We Are Despite Our Differences

October 18, 2022 Carl Barnett

“This is who we are, beyond the social structure that attempts to sever all ties.”

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Shawn Hoven of Oandi Design**

We are despite our differences, tied together by our draw towards beauty, and our need to communicate through the act of creating. This is who we are, beyond the social structure that attempts to sever all ties. It is through the creative mind that we find resolve, building new pathways through ways of thinking and doing.

The communicative languages run deep, formed by our progression in time, and solidified by our making. This is is our attempt at self-expression, change, and sense-making, moving the needle we as spiral, through space and time.