Artist Tracy Ellyn suspends layer upon layer of her drawings, paintings, photography and writing into her oversized plexi installations, then hangs them as if they are floating from the wall. Each piece’s dense physicality can’t help but draw in the viewer and keep him or her engaged for extended periods of time. Yet, that same physicality has an intense lightness of being that helps to lift the spirit and emotions of the viewer, while simultaneously lifting the physicality of his or her illness from body and soul. Engaging and transforming are the two most potent effects of her art pieces.
The sheer beauty and universality of each piece is expressed in several eastern and western languages, lifting the viewer out of self and into a holistic healing world of prayer and meditation. As one travels through the nooks and crevices created by her mixed media textures, further layers of word and image can be found. It is as if one is on a journey, entering the healing light of each piece’s luminescence.
Tracy Ellyn’s website can be found at www.tracyellyn.com and her work followed at www.facebook.com/tracyellynfinearts.
Images from Tracy Ellyn’s “Refuah: The Art of Healing” series.
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