streaming reflections
bert leveille artist statements

installations


CROSSOVER: Are they fleeing, protecting, escaping, soaring, overcoming...?
CONNECTING: ...trying to explore interior/exterior passageways and interior psychological spaces...
— bert leveille, artist

rotunda gallery 1
Streaming Reflections – CROSSOVER


I am exploring consciousness with abstraction and light, with the intent to create a meditative space — a place where one can enter a stream of consciousness — strands of the past, present and future; reflections of both our interior and exterior realities. I present mindful beings, not necessarily human – reflections of us or we of them. 

This painting “crossover” is perhaps my “Guernica”. Consistent with my intent to present mindful beings, these figures are like us. Are they fleeing, protecting, escaping, soaring, overcoming...? A wall, a prison, an impossible situation, a personal haunting, a mind that won’t give them rest…? Are they making it, surviving, succeeding, rejoicing…? My interpretation includes optimism.

My life experience is filtered through me — surrounds me as I paint. I cannot escape the realities of children being separated from their parents, human beings treated lesser because they are unfamiliar (we are the same). Are they crossing over? Are we crossing over? Is our society crossing over?
— bert leveille, artist

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rotunda gallery 2
Streaming Reflections – CONNECTING


I believe that we are all connected, and especially to those that touch our lives. I can only have mindfulness now of the essence of my Mom, of my Dad and of too many people in my life. Although my loss is personal, I recognize that it is a common experience that binds most of us together.

I am exploring consciousness.

I painted these paintings while connecting to my Mom, pulling images from the paint — like seeing images in clouds, and playing music: notably “City of Angels”, “Love and Rockets Express”, “Brainwave Suite” and “Awakening Spirit”.

The animation video “into the ellipse” was created before my Mom left me to dance the celestial dance with my Dad, but maybe it foreshadowed her departure. I am trying to explore interior/exterior passageways and interior psychological spaces while connecting to the collective conscious.

Also playing: the video, “colour voyage” further explores this connection. I have extrapolated the colour images largely from the four paintings in this installation.

— bert leveille, artist





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