Here are the results for Creativity Contest!

 

Remember to enter Creativity Contest #2 by Monday, October 29. at 6pm Eastern Time.

 

Contest #1 - The Challenge: 

Submit your creation that somehow (anyhow!) incorporates this quote:

"I shut my eyes in order to see."  -  Paul Gaughin

Your piece can use any media, technique, or combination thereof.

TIED FOR FIRST PLACE

"Butterfly Dream", Digital Collage by Cynthia Wiist

and

 

"Beauty Inside", Digital Collage

by Barbara Hintze Miller 

 

THIRD PLACE

"Storyteller", Mixed Media Collage 32" x 24" width
by Barb Starrenburg

Gauguin held onto his own beliefs about what art should or should not be. Rather than imitating exactly what was before him, he interpreted what he saw and placed something of himself within each artwork. In the work /Storyteller/, I have used a combination of words to express myself when "I shut my eyes" such as: As Eye See It, Show and Tell, Exposures, What is in a Name?, along with many others.

 

 

AND...Here are the other wonderful entries:

"In Order to See", Digital Collage

by Tara Douglas-Smith 

"Eyes Wide Open", Poem

by Constance Bates 

 
No one is born with eyes wide open,

and I am like you, after all:

the dreary drive of push and pull,

the closing door through which I slip,

the head-long fight to live beyond

the pale and darkish veil

is strong.

 

After the waterway, and blood,

the comforting cord begins to choke,

and I would hold my bubbling breath

if only to be done at last;

and then I pass, eyes tightly shut,

and shield my soul from hellish sights.

Nothing’s wrong:

 

Somehow I know just when to squint,

and blink, and then they laugh, and think,

“Oh NOW she sees!” and count the toes

and touch the ears and nose and

think I am unknowing, new –

My eyes were wide, wide open, when

I chose to close them, like Gauguin:

For as I’m born, and as I die,

I shut my eyes in order to see,

And move along.

 

 

"Eyes", Mixed media acrylic on wood blocks.

3 blocks. Each block 2.5x3.5”

by Karen O'Brien 

"Parisienne", Digital collage

by Chris O'Brien 

"Those Too Blind to See", ATC; b/w nude photograph, gesso, inks, markers

by Meredith "Mollye" Self

Insight", Paper Collage, 8" x 10"

by Sher Barauskas 

"i shut my eyes in order to see"

tape transfer of Marcel Marceau newspaper image collaged with cardstock ad image of window and white tag with stenciled text affixed with brad on a 4.5X6.5-inch blue textured card

by Linda Ocasio 

I close my eyes"

Altered book 2-page spread, size approx 10 x 13
Acrylic paints, torn art papers, magazine images, wire mesh, metal dragonflys, rub-on letters, feathers, and a sticker.

by Leslie Trippy 

"Sunset by the See"
Photograph with text added digitally

by Scott D. 

"Sweet Slumber Pillow"
Mixed media fabric pillow 10" x 10"

by Tammy Hensley 

"Heart Sight"

4" x 5" postcard size. Paper, acrylic paint, quote is done by packing tape transfer, rubber stamps are by Vickie Enkoff, ink is Staz-On, some interesting magic markers I had on hand.

by Holly Cazabon

"Twillight of the Mind"
6"x4" (600x416 pixels), ink and colored pencil

by Kate Weber

"Music Can Take You Places"
Collage, 8.5” x 11”

by Arthiss Kliever 

"Noah Dreams of the Sea"

by Nici Derosier

"Eyes", Collage

by Carol Henley 

Thanks to everyone who voted, and congratulations to our winners!