The creative process remains hidden and mysterious, even for the artist who is creating. All we can do is dance around its source, look at it from different angles, nurture its growth and appreciate its expressive flowering. It is equally mysterious to ask how an artist finds her specific inspiration? What does he choose to create? For painter Johanna Baruch, it’s almost as if the inspiration chose her.
In this image-rich presentation, Johanna will explore the many facets of the creative process through her own work of painting the Cosmos, as inspired by images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. She’ll dive into the magic of seeing into deep space, and how that opens up deep vistas within herself. She will travel into history to connect us up to our ancient ancestors who looked up into the night sky in awe. She will explore the alchemy of painting, seeing the artist’s studio as a laboratory in which the prima materia is processed to create something alive and meaningful. And she’ll investigate the science as a language that bridges us to the great mystery of the universe around us, as it also connects us to our own selves, borne out of that same “star stuff.”