Storytelling
Spring 1994 Vol. 10 #2
Spring 1994 Vol. 10 #2
I feel my art and practice are one. I know how to respect and follow my inner feelings. I do not know how these feelings originate. I make in metaphor, art forms, forms of the human spirit. I make the images of bound and wrapped spirits to emphasize the content of the human condition. Exposed to New York City streets, a worker in the New York City homeless shelter system, I am not alien to the world of the tragic, the world of joy, the world of anxiety, loneliness and isolation.
—Bette Alexander
© Bette Alexander, The Ancients, 1991–1993, mixed media. Used by permission
From the Spring 1994 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 10, No. 2
Artist
Bette Alexander has spent much of her life devoted to painting and mixed-media art. She is an avid shakuhachi player, describing it as a form of meditation as well as music making. Of her visual art, she writes, “Perhaps my pictures show how monotonous life would be if we only cared for what is great in the world and not about everything local and particular that actually makes life rich.” For more information, visit bettealexander.com.