Description Big Yellow emerged after I was working at a law firm in Philadelphia, sorting through construction documents, day in and day out. I was working my way up from walking away from 'having it all' with the mainstream ideal... out onto the streets of Philadelphia in mid-winter, without much of a safety net, aside from having a steady job and a few friends who could offer me a place to stay for short periods.I worked my way through it all just fine. It wasn't nearly as traumatic as everyone seemed to think it was -- yes, I'd 'lost everything' and I was no longer living the standard-issue American Dream for a middle-class Caucasian female, but I was living my dream.Dreams notwithstanding, there were a lot of logistics to work through... just the day-to-day business of finding a place to live, staying clean and together and not letting on that my private life was in a shambles, and I was seriously transgressing against the mainstream template. There were papers to sort and phone calls to answer, bosses to please and paychecks to earn. Just keeping things going at work, doing my job, doing my part... practicing the mundane was a huge part of my not-so-mundane emergence.Big Yellow was a metaphor for my life, at that point in time -- sorting through the details, piecing everything together, mixing and matching the different aspects of my life into one continuous whole... It was Big, and it was Yellow, considering that yellow is often associated with thought processes.I was thinking a whole lot, at that point in time. And my thought process -- and life process -- worked. I got my act together, got a place to stay of my own, and built a life from the ground-up, just the way I wanted it.
Kay Stoner, Boston Member Since August 2007 Artist Statement I am a mixed media artist, writer, and poet who works with sacred geometries and colors to chronicle and archive the energetic experiences of myself and the collective consciousness.
I have been working with fractal images since the late 1990s, and I continue to be amazed by their intricacy and transitory nature. It is my honor and privilege to "midwife" them into being... the real magic happens in a space that no one can consciously approach... what remains for me -- for us all, really -- is to remain open and attendant and to do the best we can with the tools we've been given.
I have published numerous books of poetry and prose, and I have been working in mixed media for over 20 years. I am an avid student of mythology and symbolism, and I find the archetypes and abstractions of alchemy to be highly useful in creating my art, as well as the life I live. I have been employed in the legal field, high-tech, and financial services, and I bring to my art the intention of supporting and strengthening excellence in all activities, through the deliberate use of color, shape, geometries, and proportion.