At last! I have a central location for showing my paintings. Over many years I have been blessed with people from all around the world being drawn to my exhibitions and works.
My new website is a wonderful archive for the public, collectors, and myself to view this broad body of selected Kari Bienert paintings. I’m so happy I now have the opportunity to share this.
Although making this possible hasn’t been without its challenges…
After forgetting to renew my domain name some time ago, a business opportunist claimed “karibienert.com” and wanted $10,000 for it!!!! Bla!!! Lesson learnt……Years later (after refusing to pay 10k) ‘they’ did not renew the domain and I got it back for free! ……….Crazy Stuff!
Putting the site together, I went through so many emotions, as one does looking back in time at anything. Different works triggered different time zones and feelings. My paintings nurtured me as I nurtured them. There were periods where I studied and worked with the square and amoeba shape (and still do) for many years in a row, other years were dominated by lines for miles of my life. Different music filled my head. I remembered the time I met Phillip Glass in Adelaide, one of my heros.
There were soft coloured flat planes that fed my soul and complicated geometric grids that made complex daily events encrusted with meaning. I remembered studios far back in laundries, bedrooms, share houses, art collective studios, and apartments around the world. Time dreams where my life is captured in paint.
I am currently painting outside in my backyard jungle with the birds and huge butterflies. Ideas and insights are coming so quickly at any time of the day and night that making breakfast or crossing the road require me to be ultra-focused or I’m off into another world. 2014 is an exciting time. I am so grateful to my techno team of one, who is really a wizard and wants to remain anonymous.
So, how am I going to cope with all the techno social blabber out there (is there an app called “blabber”?)? My main strategy will be, not to worry about what anyone thinks anytime anywhere. Easy……Right?!
And now it’s happening… I’m hooking up, I’m plugging in and getting my babies out in the digital world!
ENJOY!
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