Pamela Sukhum - Recollecting Divinity

Increase Your Awareness
As you view the art above and read the art review below by Integral Life Aesthetics Editor Michael Schwartz, take notice of four primary lenses made available by integral aesthetics: the subjective/intentional space of the artist himself; the materials, medium, form and structure of the art work itself; the historical, economic and social structure in which the art work is created; and the cultural, linguistic and intersubjective values space in which the artist works and/or seeks to express.

If you would like more details, be sure to check out Michael's exquisite exploration of integral aesthetics: Looking at the Overlooked.

“I open myself to all experience as a path to remembering divinity.” – PS

Painting in the western tradition has more than once been likened to poetry – an apt comparison for the art of Pamela Sukhum, whose work is intimate, decisive, gentle and forceful: a poetical painting in the mood of lyric.

A pictorial lyricism moreover that is exceptional in seamlessly expressing transpersonal waves of being: radiant transparencies and opacities of space and form conducting kosmic flows of love.

The famous feminist dictum that the "personal is the political" might be refigured with reference to this art as the personal is the transpersonal – not the personal as step to the transpersonal (the latter merely tolerating the former); but an individuation of painterly expression that marries and celebrates both – artistic creations of a Unique Self.

The nature-based imagery of these paintings is allusive — symbolic in the mystical sense of the term: resounding in silence, replete with significance; aesthetic engagement moved to deeper modes of comprehension.

Sukhum's artworks are like waking dreams disclosing the never before having been seen.