Karl Marxhausen (KM): Okay, I'll show SOME PEOPLE I have done. I need a volunteer. (to student) Come on down and just hold this to show everybody.
A Student With Painting (SWP) holds up a 20 x 16 inch canvas, while I hold up 8 x 8 1/2 inch photo mounted on card stock and covered with clear packing tape (click on next image)
KM: So here is what the picture looks like, that I worked from. And someone yesterday asked why I didn't paint in the buildings in the background. Well if I wanted to do it just like the photo there would be building back here. But when I was doing this I was doing a series. A SERIES is when you have an idea. You have one, two, three, four pieces with AN IDEA in mind. And the idea I was doing here was thinking about people in other countries that maybe think or believe in the same kinds of things that I do.
KM: And so I found this mom and this daughter. They are from a province called Samarkand. It's near Turkey. And so I was doing a series of brothers-and-sisters-of-a-faith-that-I-believe-in. And so, and so I left the buildings out. I didn't want to do them.
KM: But I did put THIS up here (pointing to the upper left-hand corner) What do you think that MIGHT be? Hold it up so everybody can see it. What do you think THIS IS!!!? It sort of looks like a star. I don't know what it could be. (Points to student) The gal in the pink.
Student in Pink (SP): It looks a little bit like a bird.
KM: Like a bird? Yeah! ON PURPOSE!!! That's a CLUE. (To another hand raised) Yeah, what do you think?
Student Near (SN): I looked at it and I thought it was a ghost or spirit.
KM: Yeah! You are right on it! A ghost or a spirit. And a bird. Those are two very important clues. (To another hand raised) Go ahead.
Student Too Quiet (STQ): Let's see.
KM: What was that? A ghost? or a spirit? (To another had raised) What's that? Yeah?
Student X: An angel.
KM: (To student holding the painting with a hand raised) Yes, what do you think?
Student With Painting (SWP): I think, like the holy spirit.
KM: There is a thing out there called The Holy Spirit, which is like a ghost. So, by putting sort of a symbol in the picture it is sort of saying: "There is more going on there." And I'll tell you, when I was working on this, you could either call it a devotion or a meditation, where you were thinking about: Okay, this person that I have never met is connected to me. We believe in the same kind of thing. Then, it is also an EMOTIONAL piece, because I have never met these people but we have something in common. And that sort of takes art to another level. Thank you (for holding the painting for me).
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