NOURISH

January 23, 2023 Carl Barnett

NOURISH was founded on the intent to support the creative endeavor of others, and to speak to why we create and collect. To bridge the gap between person and object. The why before the what. Through material and the intimacy of making, we express and excavate our experiences of being human. Resolving and uplifting by way of beauty and the creative mind. This is why we create and collect. Our universal language, without words. And this, is why NOURISH exists.

It is my belief that all creative endeavors exist on the same horizontal line as Art. Thus all should be curated together: furniture, painting, jewelry, ceramics, books, food, etc. The artisan and the artisanal. Each of these categories have the same function, to uplift, inform and otherwise bring joy, through the depths of beauty and the creative mind.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Oxford Street Furniture**

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Peg Woodworking**

The creative arenas are difficult to manage on one’s own. It is also difficult to bridge the gap between creator and the general public. It is through the community of creators, collectors, and educators that the light is shown upon the benefits of living with and appreciating art, be it a chair or a painting.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| SENTIENT Furniture | Kathryn Robinson-MIllen | Liadain Warwick Smith**

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Kershaw Studio**

I believe strongly in what the creative mind can do. If we can destroy inadvertently, we can create intently, a better now and future. Through architecture, art, and design we create possibility. This is my intent with NOURISH.

Human And Nature

January 22, 2023 Carl Barnett

**NOURISH** **| Carl Barnett - Sojourn**

Self-expression and our pull toward beauty give life its texture and a sense of meaning of who we are, where we are, and a light to where we're going. It is our intuition of sense-making and storytelling. Our selves as cartographers, curators, builders, and dreamers.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Laura Kastin - Pedestaled Sculpture**

**NOURISH Gallery** **| John Sheppard | Facet Tower Lamp**

Through the creative mind and nature, we see who we are, nurturing and reflecting our sense of place and temporal being, the micro, and the macro. It is through making we give weight to the meaning in life, to the meaning of being human: our place and our purpose.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| bicyclette - Jane Table**

Sojourn

January 16, 2023 Carl Barnett

All that encompasses the creative mind and body, courage, love, beauty, and fear, is our draw to what feels safe, secure, or enticing as the horizon line of change and chance. It is our inherent pull to be storytellers, that feeds our desire toward the bigger world: myths, traditions, and the unknown human psyche. Our creative prowess to create the new, and covet the old we stand upon. Through courage, we navigate the equanimity of beauty and the ugly: an indexical signifier of living one’s life. It is the creative endeavor that documents our doings, love, destruction, and its opposite terrains. It is through the creative mind, we build our way, of splintered paths, and mazes.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Carl Barnett - Painting - Untitled (Purpose and Meaning).**

This, this desired dream.

This.

This here.

Me.

Digging And Filling In

January 8, 2023 Carl Barnett

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Gabriel J. Shuldiner - Painting - H50D90UU8B##_invisible_2022**

The creative mind digs deep the terrain of the self, pulling at weeds and roots. Breaking stones for light to come in. It is through the creative endeavor that the self is heard, questioning as it is answering, by way of beauty, mark-making, and sound.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Laurence Elle Groux - Ceramic Sculpture - Lifting The Spirit**

This excavation, this mining of the self, is post Industrial Revolution effect, digging, sifting and filling back in. Defining and discovering who we are, through material, making and storytelling. By filling in, we regrow, the roots that bind who we are. This is history, and present making, qualifying the new now, and the next. To define and discover who we are, we dig and fill in, by way of the creative mind, by way of beauty.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| bicyclette - Sawhorse Table | Benjamin Provo - White Basalt Vase Form IV | Alex Olson - Carved And Imprinted Series Ceramic Bowl | Carl Barnett - Untitled Painting**

Closer To Ourselves

January 2, 2023 Carl Barnett

“Through beauty we see ourselves, through the hand created we attempt to define.”

**NOURISH Gallery** - **Carl Barnet - Untitled Painting - Acrylic On Canvas**

It is, by no other reason than our need to create, and our curiosity that moves us forward, resolving our current issues, while bringing us closer to ourselves: making meaning of the vastness of life and being human. Through beauty we see ourselves, through the hand created we attempt to define. Curiosity is our pull, creativity our push to make real the ephemeral self.

**NOURISH Gallery** **- bicyclette - Sawhorse Table - Maple**

To live in the present is to allow for a beautiful future, one of possibility brought forth through the creative mind and the impassioned heart, sowing the seeds of a new now.