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art by roman w schatz

I AM in Taree, art and storytelling workshop.

I am  looking forward to working with students from the Taree Public School on the I AM arts and storytelling project next week. This project explores visual literacy, oracy, active listening, cultural awareness,  risk-taking, self esteem building, co-operative behaviour, reflective practice, experimentation, persistence, imaginative thought,  improvisation, spontaneity and self expression!  

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I AM

Every year for the past six years Morgan and I have been visiting the primary school students at HFS in Ulsan South Korea to run art and storytelling workshops.  This year the students are exploring issues of identity through stories and art works which are  text based.  I have shown the students artists that have used text in their art making,including traditional Asian calligraphy, graffiti art and modern artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cy Twombly and Colin McCahon.  The students have taken to this challenge with great enthusiasm and have created some wonderful and thoughtful works.  I am looking forward to the final outcome of this project and the exhibition of all art works on Friday at the school.

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Desire and consequence

This composition is based on the Greek myth The Flight of Icarus. It explores the human experience  of desire and consequence and is part of a series of works on the nature of risk taking and escape.
The painting is executed with ink, acrylic, graphite and oil pastels on prepared paper.
This work is for sale as part of the 140Hours of Fame Auction on 29th of January.  For more details go to http://www.140hours.com/

Title: All Limits Are Self Imposed
Size: 60 x 85 cm  (23.6 x 33.4 inch.)
Medium: Mixed media on paper (unframed)

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Little Buddha

Artwork of the week: Little Buddha, 100 x 120 cm, Acrylic and mixed media on canvas. To encourage Japanese children to eat all of their rice the
grains are affectionately called little Buddhas. This painting is my homage to the food of life, in both a physical and spiritual sense. This is a new post for my new facebook fanpage for Roman W. Schatz)

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Wanderlust

I am struggling with my wanderlust!  I have now been back from my last trip for two weeks and the first few days are always the hardest for me. It is as if my body is waiting to catch up with my spirit.  Mind you it has been a good year for my wanderlust with visits to International Schools in Japan, Korea and several European countries.  It has been a rewarding experience to share stories and art projects, together with my partner storyteller M.S. Blackrose, with many students and see the inspiring final works that they have produced.  I can't imagine doing anything else but traveling and sharing art and stories, it is what makes the world  a rewarding place to be in.  Having now come back to Australia for another hot summer I am already looking forward to next year's travel. In the meantime, I am curing my wanderlust with some highlights of this year's journeys. 

“When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.” -Francis Bacon

all photos © R.W. Schatz

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Dragon

 

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Ulsan-shop

 

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Love, hopes and dreams - the enduring melancholy of autumn. (In memory of Jeanne Claude)

I love autumn!  I especially appreciate the season in the northern hemisphere where I am now.  Perhaps I am the only person in town that really gets excited when the fog settles in and the landscape becomes a monochromatic vision of melancholy. I find autumn a romantic season, a time that makes me feel nostalgic for past loves and dreams.  Today I photographed trees who in their silent beauty, embodied the passing of the season, and was reminded of the simple perfection in which Tang poetry celebrates the emotions of each season. 

This post is dedicated to the memory of Jeanne Claude (1935-2009), thank you for the inspiration.

Autumn Air
The autumn air is clear,
The autumn moon is bright.
Fallen leaves gather and scatter,
The jackdaw perches and starts anew.
We think of each other- when will we meet?
This hour, this night, my feelings are hard.
Li Bai (701 - 762)

all photos copyright  R.W. Schatz

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