NOURISH

“We are intrinsically of beauty, made in its image, of the stars and nature that surrounds us.”

NOURISH | studiovoll

Nourishing oneself with the beauty of the hand created delves deep into the intuitive self and one’s humanity, supporting others as we support ourselves. We are intrinsically of beauty, made in its image, of the stars and nature that surrounds us. It is no wonder that we covet and collect, it’s our way of understanding ourselves, countering the capricious unknown. Beauty is the reflection of all that we are, all that we seek, what we attempt to create in living our lives.

NOURISH | Liadain Warwick Smith

“We are intuitively creative beings, dreamers and doers with an eye to the future and another peering within.”

NOURISH | studiovoll | Carl Barnett | Andy Graves

The hand created has a history that crosses nations, genders and political views, binding us together by the means of beauty. It is universal in how it touches our lives, documenting our past as it gives hope to the future. The hand created has always been our history, from the first cutting tools and bowls, to talismans that attempt to ease the unknown. We are intuitively creative beings, dreamers and doers with an eye to the future and another peering within.

NOURISH | Andy Graves

“Through beauty and the hand created we move forward a tad easier, with a better sense of self.”

NOURISH | SENTIENT | ANDY GRAVES | Kathryn Robinson-Millen | Carl Barnett | studiovoll

We are what we create and collect, what we nourish as a means to smooth our way forward. It is through our endeavors of beauty that life is enhanced for ourselves and those we support and care for. To live a nourished life is an ongoing effort of trials and triumphs, lessons learned and forgotten. Through beauty and the hand created we move forward a tad easier, with a better sense of self. 

NOURISH | SENTIENT

“To live a nourished life is an ongoing effort through life’s trials and triumphs, lessons learned and forgotten.”

NOURISH | Andy Graves | studiovoll | Liadain Warwick Smith | Carl Barnett

| Kathryn Robinson-Milen

The Mind And Hand

“If we are ruled by the mind as it seems, who then are we? We are, who we say we are.”

Carl Barnett

What’s possible is a function of the mind as is what’s not: what’s left unsaid, undone and the opposite. Life is predicated on mindset and doing, on emotion, action and reaction, it encircles a core of belief systems, inner guide posts of intuition, long held rules of conduct, maps.  If we are ruled by the mind as it seems, who then are we? We are, who we say we are.

NOURISH | Laurence Elle Groux

“What’s destroyed and created are within the same possibility of mind, change is always possible and beauty waits within.”

NOURISH | studiovol | Carl Barnett

Beauty is in the eye of the seer and in the belly of the maker, a reflection of who we are and how we see the world, what we see we believe and physically create. We build the world we live in by mindset and creation, to think, say and make, and we create change by the same process of mind and doing. What’s destroyed and created are within the same possibility of mind, change is always possible and beauty waits within.

Oliver Gustav

“Change happens within the bud of the mind, it blossoms and blooms, creating the new and possible.”

Diller Scofidio + Renfro | Stefano Boeri Architetti

To create change and beauty is to see who we are, to believe and act upon, to merely do as breathing and the heart beat. Change happens within the bud of the mind, it blossoms and blooms, creating the new and possible. We are who we say we are, we build through the beauty of the mind and the dexterity of the hand.

NOURISH | SENTIENT

“We are who we say we are, we build through the beauty of the mind and the dexterity of the hand.”

Axel Vervoordt

Who are we, where are we going? 

Curiosity And Discovery

“Through curiosity we discover our truest selves as individuals in society and society itself, finding resolve and meaning, while fueling purpose and hope.”

NOURISH | Carl Barnett

It is through the process of digging and sifting that we learn who we are and where we hope to go in the future. Through curiosity we discover our truest selves as individuals in society and society itself, finding resolve and meaning, while fueling purpose and hope. Through curiosity we learn, edit and expand.

NOURISH | SENTIENT

“Creativity is a language of communication, map and inquiry to the collective mass, a means to decipher and inspire or to otherwise give sense to the cacophony of being human.”

NOURISH | studiovoll

It is also through the process of creativity, that we discover who we are and encourage others to do the same: a mirror to the creator, light for others to see. Creativity is a language of communication, map and inquiry to the collective mass, a means to decipher and inspire or to otherwise give sense to the cacophony of being human. It is intuitive as emotion and mind, intrinsic as hope, will and love.

NOURISH | Laurence Elle Groux

Tenacity And Merely Doing

“It is the creative mind that frees us from our trenches, if only for moments at a time, as we build our new vision, plot our escape.”

Studio Roosegaarde | Urban Sun

At times it seems nothing makes sense, our lives feel as if no longer ours, no longer our original hope or deepest dream, as though someone else’s life we’ve been preening. We tend to follow a path so deep and far that it becomes no longer a path but a trench, protecting us from the fear of newness and change, from seeing what’s out there or more precisely from feeling what’s within. It is the creative mind that frees us from our trenches, if only for moments at a time, as we build our new vision, plot our escape.

GALLERY | Andy Graves | Carl Barnett

“The truest self is beauty manifesting, the intuitive cartographer, building moments one stone at a time.”

GALLERY | studiovoll | Kathryn Robinson-Millen | Andy Graves | Carl Barnett

The creative mind has brought us to where we are and will bring us to where we need to be. We are not a perfect species, we lose our light and follow paths no longer viable, reacting to ghosts. The truest self is beauty manifesting, the intuitive cartographer, building moments one stone at a time. 

GALLERY | studiovoll

“Creativity is guide and compass, map and renderer of the future, maker of things and words that pull and push.”

GALLERY | Andy Graves

Beauty sets the psyche’s compass, inspiring the creative mind to forge a new way, fostering change by way of new light and resolute will. Creativity is guide and compass, map and renderer of the future, maker of things and words that pull and push. This is how reality is molded and the future comes to pass, by tenacity and merely doing: a beautiful mind. 

GALLERY | studiovoll | Artist’s Book

Sequences Of Progression

How we live are 

sequences of progression: 

GALLERY | Carl Barnett

To draw a line. 

To cross a line. 

To tie a line.

GALLERY | Carl Barnett | studiovoll | Liadain Warwick Smith

To do better.

To be better.

To give better. 

GALLERY | Carl Barnett