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MICHELLE GRAZNAK COLLECTION

Visions Corporelles -Detail

Catholic Prayer book inside pages cut to create box, metal leaf, cotton rag cast paper hands painted with gauche.
Dimensions: Book approximately 7" x 9", hands life size

Visions Corporelles -Detail

Catholic Prayer book inside pages cut to create box, metal leaf, cotton rag cast paper hands painted with gauche.
Dimensions: Book approximately 7" x 9", hands life size

Ancient Fables Don’t Teach Dead Children

2022
Medium: Watercolor & Colored Pencil
Dimensions: 7 1/2” x 10 5/8”
Price: $500

Ancient Fables Don’t Teach Dead Children

2022
Medium: Watercolor & Colored Pencil
Dimensions: 7 1/2” x 10 5/8”
Price: $500

Kokopelli’s Pain
1994
Medium: Colored Pencil
Dimensions: 11” x 14”
Price $400

Kokopelli’s Pain
1994
Medium: Colored Pencil
Dimensions: 11” x 14”
Price $400

Two Golden Fish Series, Summoning of the Two Golden Fish
2016
Medium: Encaustic, Paper, Xerox Transfer, Oil on Wood Panel
Dimensions: 12" x 12" x 1/2"
Price: $450

Spiritual symbolism winds its way throughout the encaustic works of Michelle Graznak and emerges as an offering of tranquility, solace and hopefulness. This series of 5 paintings borrow from the Buddhist Ashtamangala series of 8 auspicious symbols that represent offerings from the gods made to the Buddha upon his reaching Enlightenment. In the case of the Golden Fish, the symbol represents a state of conscious courage and fearlessness especially when confronted with adversity. Just as the fish swim freely toward the ocean, humanity seeks freedom from drowning in “Samsara” or the cycle of life and rebirth. To escape this cycle is to finally reach enlightenment.

Our world seems submerged in inescapable suffering during these times of pandemic disease, persecution of autocratic regimes upon cultural and religious minorities and environmental degradation. The artist looks to the Golden Fish as a vehicle for achieving the courage to take action and for describing compassion for those who become submerged in these conditions. To imagine ourselves as Golden Fish, submerged in universally flowing waters is to recognize our unity as living beings.

Two Golden Fish Series, Summoning of the Two Golden Fish
2016
Medium: Encaustic, Paper, Xerox Transfer, Oil on Wood Panel
Dimensions: 12" x 12" x 1/2"
Price: $450

Spiritual symbolism winds its way throughout the encaustic works of Michelle Graznak and emerges as an offering of tranquility, solace and hopefulness. This series of 5 paintings borrow from the Buddhist Ashtamangala series of 8 auspicious symbols that represent offerings from the gods made to the Buddha upon his reaching Enlightenment. In the case of the Golden Fish, the symbol represents a state of conscious courage and fearlessness especially when confronted with adversity. Just as the fish swim freely toward the ocean, humanity seeks freedom from drowning in “Samsara” or the cycle of life and rebirth. To escape this cycle is to finally reach enlightenment.

Our world seems submerged in inescapable suffering during these times of pandemic disease, persecution of autocratic regimes upon cultural and religious minorities and environmental degradation. The artist looks to the Golden Fish as a vehicle for achieving the courage to take action and for describing compassion for those who become submerged in these conditions. To imagine ourselves as Golden Fish, submerged in universally flowing waters is to recognize our unity as living beings.

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