SHIN’EI ALISON
DREAMS
Dreams I can’t fathom their portent,
this flowing on of images.
She speaks in the language of flowers
and sings a flower song,
to sing the petals of strange roses.
Oh, Eyes of night
flow into the dawn.
Her face, the darkness carries forth
opening wide the journey:
again
and again our story begins.
We have not been born into the world of stories, united collectively through shared vision. All beings have their stories, not a linear progression to a predestined ending, but a labyrinth of connections, connections to our great roots: Memory, a genuine history. I wish to make tribute through images and words that invoke the mystery, to give body to the myth-world, the magical and imaginative potential of a cosmos.Images and stories embedded in the psyche, the very structure of consciousness. I would like to encourage people to listen more thoughtfully, to see, to hear, within the ordinary events of our days, the quiet intuitions of the universe.
Tree Women
Red Earth Nature
I became an artist out of a profound need to express images and words integral to my life, but also out of a love for beauty, how it is rooted in the elements, in sacred forms and tradition. As a young child I suffered a serious illness, which brought forth these images. Equipped with a few bottles of colored ink and scrap paper, I painted myth-like figures, trees and serpents, an expression of raw vision: images like seeds imprinted within me.
Shinei Alison is a painter, print-maker and poet from New York City with a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Rutgers University and a Masters of Fine Arts from Southern Illinois University. Shinei brings vitality and clarity to painting and drawing which comes from a lifelong dedication to the arts. She is a perceptive and sensitive poet who has published and performed her own writing. She taught studio art classes to adults and college students for fourteen years. Spiritual practice and researches into areas of myth and history have had significant influence on her work, which have been exhibited in both group and solo shows.
