MAGGIE ENS

I rescue a flood of precious stuff and save up lots of priceless snippets to make my environmentally sEnsitive Underwater Basket Woven sculptures.

They are fun disquieting pieces that resemble jungle-knotted clusters, thickets and fortifications.

Like Carl Jung’s dreamy plunge into the churning waters of the collective unconscious, I transform what I think is still valuable castaway stuff.

By diving into this concentrated psychically charged core of valuable ruin on top of dumpsters filled high, imagining how Chaos has a compelling, compositional order.

Inside the waste stream, straining through psychically charged remains, uncovering multifaceted and meaningful connections between all the parts. Activating anti-formal ordinary elements to surprise and tease out ambivalence. Twisting edges inside and out and turning right side images upside down, freely experimenting with notions of depth, texture, pattern, shape and color. There are moments of blissful sparkling inner wisdom. Dream that in spite of our past inhuman moral bankruptcy and broken fragmented spirituality, we all become more fully human. Cut up plastic water bottles and shopping bags, tangle, twist and stick together newspapers and magazines. Travel around the privileges and pitfalls of conspicuous consumption. Stitch and glue and tie together all kinds of things like shredded clothing, children's toys, plastic bugs and paper butterflies. Explore the extinction of nationalism with its dangerous rush towards war and genocide.

Miles Davis the jazz great said, "There are no wrong notes." By staying open and improvisational, this enriched treasure mountain filled with the over-abundance of mortal tossed away goods is mined. Attaching dismembered pretty dolls, little green soldiers, and artificial and real leaves. What does it mean to become a conscious global citizen fully awakened to the challenges of the 21st century?

Art is the flower of culture.

I think Art has healing power to wage peace and harmonize."Choose Hope" inspires my personal politics. With Art we can unearth a personal antidote to cure our communal ills. Rowdy and sublime, art speaks volumes about all the many topical issues. It provokes a heartfelt dialogue between people.

To disagree in a civilized way, we uncover creative solutions needed to grow and change. With art we somehow mend and repair the torn fabric of civilized life.

Art surprises us.

MAGGIE ENS
Exhibiting at The Trees of Nerve Endings Gallery
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