Unbound Art

Over the years, I have used the house image to show the human desire and need for security, both physically and psychologically.  The house can portray the actual structure that protects us from the elements of nature but the  house is also a home, the extension of our personal selves, the place where our family, our memories and values reside.  The house can call into question our relationship with nature. Other animals seem so integrated into nature, but we survived by building this physical boundary around ourselves. As necessary as a house is, was this need for physical security the first step in forgetting our relationship and dependence on the natural world? The house image can expose our relationship with others - why do some people have excess padding (even the middle-class have mansions) while others have only the covering of blankets and cardboard? The house can be a place of protection, but when we find that our safety is compromised,  (t...

Do you love to write? Melissa Hamilton Kolberg has agreed to host a Write to Bloom workshop using my drawings as writing inspiration.  Sunday, November 11, 2-4 in Melissa's studio, Trumansburg NY. For more information visit the website:  https://www.write2bloom.com/ I'm not sure yet what drawings I will show, but here are a few possibilities. The Unknowable Leaving Home Double Falls, The Past and the Future Constructing Reality

This painting was originally called The Family Tree,  now I am renaming it The Tree of Life.  It is the same, isn't it?

I have a show coming up in October in Ithaca at Mockingbird Paperie. The work includes paintings created in 2015-16 from two series -  The Emergence of Form and The Observer is the Observed. Time meets Thought The Observer is the Observed A Receptacle for Reality Oblivious to the Universal Mind

Uprooted The World Upside Down Taking Our Sorrow to the Street Many Worlds, One Species The Unknowable 

These are the drawings that I made this summer.  They are all 22x30" graphite drawings on Stonehenge paper.  Creating Reality Writing the Story Cosmic Beings Double Falls, The Past and the Future The House of Knowledge Overwhelmed Breakthrough Moving with Snakes The Empty Vessel, The Flow of Life To see more drawings in this series, go to www.kimschrag.com

The Dragon and the Butterfly Fernando is having a show of assemblages at Gimme Coffee in Trumansburg, through August. The five assemblages in this show are  an experimental collaboration with MARK OROS,  lapidary artist at HASHNU STONES in Trumansburg. Journey Beyond Separation Fancy Mom