| Marie Bortolotto |
Marie Bortolotto is an artist living in Vancouver, BC Canada. She graduated from NSCAD University, 1996, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, focusing on sculpture and performance art. During her studies, she lived and worked in Pietrasanta, Italy, a mecca for international stone sculptors and artisans. Her artwork emerges from a passion for organic forms and the processes of nature. It explores new ways of perceiving life, birth and death, female and male, regeneration and destruction, body and mind, in order to create an inclusive, holistic language which embraces the powerful, invisible and creative energies of nature. Pods, seeds, vessel forms and transformative imagery are recurring themes in her art. These express a primordial experience - a regenerative, animated force rooted in our ancestral past. It is her intent to celebrate these regenerative and life sustaining forces of nature by integrating and engaging with them; calling them back to life within and without. Her artwork expresses an awareness of the responsibility of feeding beyond oneself into the invisible realm of ancestry and memory where reverence and gratitude are evoked. Overall, she is inspired by the underlying belief in the power of art to transform, renew and sustain our modern human lives.
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