ECVA - Alisa Clark - Holy Presence

Enshrined

Assemblage

Artist Statement: I created this piece to connect myself to some of my earliest spiritual experiences. My Aunt Julie, and avid Catholic, has several little religious shrines in her room. They had little doors and inside those doors I met Mary and Jesus for the first time. Making “Enshrined” made me feel connected to God and experience Jesus with a childlike posture. I look at this piece, and I feel I captured the wonder I found in Aunt Julie's little shrines. It is my hope that others who might otherwise miss the wonder of Jesus’ birth will look at “Enshrined” and feel pulled towards God.

Bio: Alisa E. Clark is an avid acrylic painter, collage artist, assemblage sculptor, and educator who enthusiastically explores ways to share her creative process while encouraging others to join her in the process of art making. Alisa communicates the transformative power of art through words and images and believes in releasing the spiritual power of painting to others. From within the creative flow, in-between moments are captured with a paintbrush and the artist’s voice. A better understanding of our “In-Betweens,” and ways art can give us hope no matter how hard our present places may seem, waits inside Alisa’s paintings. Her liminal creations invite people on little adventures through time and space: fantastical journeys with the power to bring interconnectedness, possibility, and a splash of imagination to the present moment. Whether Alisa is creating, writing, or teaching, her goal is always the same: to share the spiritual power of creative process in life’s liminal places and spaces.