Anna VanMatre
Black Blue White, 2013. Acrylic on cut canvas with gold.
“...(Viewing VanMatre’s work) brings to mind Camille Paglia’s Nature as depicted in her grand title Sexual Personae which she states being inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s film Persona. Mother, Sister and Beloved Awareness-Appeareance sustaining Herself through the devouring of its beginningless / endless phenomenon-tail. The earth, water, fire, air and space, as display of self-nature— introduced by Thinley Norbu Rinpoche with such practical wonder in the Magic Dance; is re-cognized and magnified under Anna VanMatre’s looking glass, constant and interacting in varying combinations of differing degrees constantly—all at once; bringing the five wisdom elements ‘home’ with each of her images as the ground where the five functions—form, feeling, perception, impulse and consciousness—that constitutes the sentient being can be practiced, as the Thus Gone One teaches; to find equilibrium. In this “House” nothing is ‘I’ or ‘mine’ and the doors are wide open... “ – from ‘Come to Mama, Images of Anna VanMatre’, Tchera Niyego. annavanmatre.com 93