This is a matrix in the original sense of "source". It is a "small-world" network, meaning that the nodes (people) inside it are — mirroring human society — within a few steps of everybody else inside it. The matrix was built to allow regional Brazilian musicians to be discoverable steps away from everybody else in the arts world, and by logical necessity this m.o. requires not only that the great Brazilians be matrixed, but so far as possible, all working artists in our time. Ergo:
THIS MATRIX, THOUGH BRAZIL-BORN, IS UNIVERSAL
This Barbara Paris matrix node is steps away from the entire planet by the well-known small-world ("6 degrees") phenomenon dictating that in human society you yourself are within several degrees of Barbara Paris.
1 DEGREE FORWARD: Barbara Paris (node) ROUTES TO THESE ARTIST NODES
Are these Barbara Paris's personal recommendations?
CURATION STATUS
- → Yes! I recommend these artists!
Who & Where
- Name: Barbara Paris
- City/Place: Austin, Texas
- Country: United States
Life & Work
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Bio:
Barbara Paris is an American painter, art teacher and multi-media artist, born in New York City of a Jewish father and a Armenian mother. Her early years were filled with a family that surrounded and nurtured her. Bolstered by her parents encouragement, she left home in order to pursue her interest in art. Barbara Paris graduated from UMASS with a dual major in fine Arts and art education.
Drawing on personal experiences, including raising kids,being a single mom,and teaching. Barbara’s works are often characterized by inspiration. She insist: “I paint with absolutely no preplanned objective or agenda, and I am always able to convey that inspiration.”
While her career was filled with success – her private life was not. Her marriage was tumultuous and ended. Her life changed dramatically, and like so many single working mothers, Barbara would have to leave the house for work early, before her elementary kids were out of bed. Her workday was filled with pain and concern about her children, getting themselves up and ready for school all on their own, no mother to give them a smile or word on encouragement or a kiss goodby as they headed out the door. After working 16 hours a day she often found herself wake up with paint on her hands, arms, or legs. Helping her to stay sane and able to handle the struggles of the days was her art.
In her art collection titled: “A bullet, A heart……a bullet takes on a different perspective. In all things there is good and there is bad, I trust in duality. Sometimes love feels like hate with a bruise, driving me to seek to understand and allow my instincts to direct me. Just as our mind and body knows what it needs when we trust. My art has become an extension of this process of seeking, of direction, of trust – and particularly in things that are otherwise overlooked. I am simply a tool being directed by instincts.”
Barbara Paris work can be found in many public and private art collections In her work she reproduces familiar visual shapes and signs, arranging them into new conceptually layered pieces with the focus on our pursuit of peace and calm in contrast to the chaos or lack of tranquility. As paint drips down the canvas she allows it to have a plan of its own causing an abstract condition of peace the painting seeks to define.
Barbara’s paintings can be purchased at her Studio in Austin, Texas.
Media & Markets
THE MATRIX WAS BUILT HERE, inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' El Aleph, that in the pillar in Cairo's Mosque of Amr, where the universe in its entirety throughout all time is perceivable as an infinite hum from deep within the stone... The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum...it sings!
Sprawled across broad equatorial latitudes
Stoked and steamed and sensual in the widest sense of the word
Limned in prosody and cadenced song
brəˈzɪl / from "brasa" / Latin for "ember"
w/ David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio
Given the immense untapped power of the small-world phenomenon, from Brazilians the matrix was expanded to include nodes per jazz artists, given jazz's common roots with Brazilian music (nodes based in publicly available information; some artists we informed — Bob Mintzer, Kamasi Washington, David "Fuse" Fiuczynski, Vijay Iyer, Greg Osby — and got thumbs up, others we'll get to), and moved on from there. Artists/academics/"creative people" are welcome to create their own nodes and curate (connect to other artist nodes, so that others may follow). BTW, our logo is a cortador de cana, cane cutter. It was designed by Walter Mariano, professor of design at the Federal University of Bahia to reflect the origins of the music the shop specializes in.
MUCH MORE on all of this in the window below (which, if you are logged in, will instead contain instructions on recommending), and in the window within that window (which includes a "radio" called by The Guardian one of "10 of the best music radio stations around the world"):
