Marilyn Banner
Takoma Park, MD
Artist Marilyn Banner works works in encaustic and mixed media.
MessageCollection: Presence of Spirit (1992-95)
During my graduate work at Massachusetts College of Art I researched comparative religions, including Shamanism. My thesis work involved mapping my psyche, and giving form to my discoveries through art. I became intimately familiar with the Shamanic concepts of an Underworld, Transformation, and an Upperworld. The Shaman is able via trance to traverse the realms with the intent to heal an individual, a group, or a society that has lost its way, lost its soul.
This body of work is about the earth plane, and the sacredness of the earth plane, of our Earth. It clearly makes use of “earthy” materials. As in much of my art work from the 1980’s and 90’s, The Presence of Spirit also makes use of imagery and materials connected with the lower and upper realms.
The Presence of Spirit includes thirty-five mixed media paintings on wood panels, each 24” x 48”, completed between 1992 and 1994, plus a few large acrylic and mixed media paintings on canvas.
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