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Cynthia Korzekwa on Color

April 9, 2007 |

[-photo essay, art, process-]

Paint is commonly used to alter things, but Cynthia’s sense of color and her freedom about what and how she paints, take it into a new and fantastic realm. Here are some of her thoughts on the transformative power of color:

Painting is about color.
A friend of mine once told me that the easiest way to transform a home’s look is with paint.

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sun painted room
before - “sun painted room” cynthia korzekwa © 2005-2007
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painted room
after - “painted room” cynthia korzekwa © 2005-2007
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Keep everything that you have but just change its color. It’s true. I’ve painted my walls, my chairs, my sofa. I’ve even painted curtains on my windows. In the past I’ve even painted my clothes, my purses, my shoes. I feel that as long as I have a can of paint and a brush, I can transform anything I want into something I want.

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broom
“broom” cynthia korzekwa © 2005 - 2007
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Color creates a state of mind.
Color is a state of mind.

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studio kitchen
“studio kitchen” cynthia korzekwa ©2005-2007
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Cynthia Korzekwa has an incredibly playful but also interesting and deep creativity. She’s been nice enough to share more of her work with us so click on the links below:
Art begins at home - Cynthia’s thoughts on the domestic side of art and her fantastically inspiring recycled art

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Cynthia says of herself:

I was born in Texas. My childhood was greatly influenced by our housekeeper. Her name was Fela. She was from Piedras Negras. I grew up speaking Spanish, eating bean tacos and listening to rancheras. Almost a Mexican. The first drawings I remember doing were done in my mother’s books. I did a series of scribbles in Webster’s dictionary. My mother wasn’t impressed. I think I got into trouble. But I kept drawing anyway. That is until I went to Catholic school. There they had rules about everything. Even about drawing. Stuff like: don’t draw to the margin of the page, don’t go out of the lines, don’t put pink next to red. All those rules made drawing a stress. Then I grew up and realized that those rules weren’t for me. They were for somebody else…..Some people were born to be foreigners. I’m one of them. I can’t be homogenized.

Visit Cynthia’s sites:
korzekwa | flickr site: los ojos | art for housewives | blog: paros - see more of her painted interiors | blog: ikastikos | email: cynthiak at tin dot it

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Originally published in the January 2006 issue of The Practically Creative Quarterly, theme: alterations

also posted in: Creative un-Blockers , Photo essays , Alterations , Inspiration , Motivation , Contributors , The Original PCQ, 05-06 , Process

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