Black and White Series
side effects of transformation
Motavenda “Moti” Melchizedek
Artist Statement
Mine is an artistic spirit. I love self-expression in all its forms. One of the most powerful things that I have learned in my life is the great importance of holding onto a willingness to be vulnerable and to move through the unknown and be open there.
For this is the place of the sacred, where latent potential can come forth and into form.
I believe we are capable of so much more than we realize and that, by moving in new ways, we begin to understand and ignite new levels of passion and creativity within ourselves and each other.
I wrote recently in an essay entitled, Othello, Naivete and the Predicament of the Innocent, “As we recognize that the shadow exists now in the very places our consciousness is meant to inhabit, we see how we are mighty in our potential indeed.” I believe this. I believe we have been bound and subjugated by a limited sense of who we are and what we are capable of as human beings. I believe that we are in a time now on earth where many are ready to move beyond these boundaries. My artwork chronicles this movement...my movement....my uncovering of hidden truths and my journey of self-realization.
I have been a prolific artist all my life. I have produced countless works. Many of these pieces illustrate, in time, my own process of integration.
This new series, Black & White....side effects of transformation, consists of 50 paintings and 30 assemblage pieces currently in process. This series marks a new evolution in my work as I break through to the other side of healing and surviving, and exit emerged into a new seat on earth. A seat of love, trancendence and peace.
I am completely inspired in these days as I create this new work and exist in a world between worlds, capturing the side effects of my own transformation. It is here that new worlds are birthed from the remnants of those that have come before. It is through my own deep process of soul level transformation that I have come to know and love this place of birth and death, of black and white, of new beginnings born of the profound experience of existing deeply and unwaveringly in the midst of a world filled with great darkness and great light. A world where I have made my choice, regardless of the price, to align with my own divinity and to create the highest art.
My hope is that this work offers inspiration to all who see it to do the same. To know their right to exist here fully. Inside of this very world we share. A world transforming.
