Arlene Nesbitt

photography and digitally mixed media

www.amnart.ca

Victoria artist Arlene Nesbitt creates works in series on themes that explore the power of ideas eg. Reformation Now, Imago Mundi and The Virtual Reality of Ideas.

Refuse Illusion is a series of macro-photos that may change our ideas about garbage.

Koan III amn '06

"Collecting and appreciating tidbits no longer useful or marketable is an exercise for the imagination. They are assembled, layered, lit up. I begin to see, that is to perceive with my inner eye, places, feelings and ideas that have been hidden.

Levitation III amn '06

On this journey of conscience and creativity, using paper, pigment and electricity, I produce more things, artworks that will later be recycled. My intention is to stimulate, question and challenge the conscience of others to refuse the illusion that it is possible to eliminate anything and instead to transform the refuse into an illusion beauty and wonder."