Welcome to Artransforms

I have been inspired to develop this website by recent intention artwork that has arisen in my own studio, by creative intention practices I’ve developed for groups, and by printed pieces I’ve put out to the public. I make my own painting and teach as a way of organizing energy into specific, coherent states, using art as a directed concretization of thought.

Humans have consciously utilized the arts as code, as celebration, as conversation, as medicine, and as sacred mapping for thousands of years. I am interested in reigniting this natural language, this ancient technology, as a modern tool for change and wholeness. I imagine this site as a tool, a forum, a portal for engagement, discussion, and intention, through the use of artmaking.

Artmaking, whether it is performative, written, visual, or aural is potent prayer, meditation, and a tool for local and non-local healing.

Human minds do, in fact, create physical form with thought and intention, on a daily, and moment-to-moment basis. But it’s a largely unconscious act for most. I am interested in engaging other artists in this dialog, and in bringing that exploration into the public arena, sparking engagement by all who interact with our work.

The act of creating brings a previously undetermined intention into consciousness or focus. As sculptor Ellen Vogel describes it, she simply begins, and the work itself reveals and reflects back her intention. A number of environmental artist Gloria Lamson’s pieces are specific to her process with chemo, and her desire to mark and be present with her experience, in this case, using the alchemical act of burning to mark radiation. Collage artist Janine Miller is committed to an on-going deep engagement with the rhythms and emotional clues in her everyday life, and creates art as a means of revealing what needs to be seen in her unconscious.

What is your experience?

--Margaret Lindsey