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Celeste Diaz Falzone (b. 1998 in Dallas TX to Colombian mother and American Father) lives and works in Pawtucket RI. Her studio practice consists of 2 and 3D mixed media with a base in textiles. Celeste is self taught, and her work explores spirituality, psychology, philosophy, dreams, and memory.
I am in pursuit of clarity. My work is the most frequent way I access the subconscious. Giving form to aspects of the unknown greater reality that exists around our current physical experience. In some ways this makes my work a cheap copy, a recreation of the profound, divine and dark things we do not often or cannot see. For that same reason I know that creating art is the most important thing one can do. In a time of such advanced science and technology, I feel a mass loss of intuition and understanding of the spiritual world. My job is to do everything I can to maintain openness and interact with this greater realm, and not lose sight of what is real vs what is experiential. This physical world is a rich, complex experience, but we are all eternal beings, so much vaster than this. This being my goal, I am not interested in honing a style or expressing my opinions. My concept of self as it relates to my ideas, opinions or even tastes have very surface level significance to who I am, who any of us are. I aim to take myself out of the equation when I am creating, and transcribe messages from beyond. To start this interaction when approaching my work, the interaction being the connection between the physical and spiritual world, I sometimes begin with a dream, sometimes a memory, sometimes an observation, or sometimes an urge. In some instances, when I'm not expecting it at all, I am handed a gift, and there’s nothing left to be done to it beyond rendering its form so I can show it to other people. Looking back, the times when I am most open to receiving these gifts have been when I am falling asleep, smell something, or am alone after a new experience.