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In this digital world, we have grown accustomed to flat images without three-dimensional form. Carla Forrest creates a dynamic, tactical quality in her paintings that appeals to the viewer's sense of touch and feel. From thin to the thick and from transparent to opaque, the unusually rich surfaces of her paintings immerse the viewer into a multi-dimensional world where they experience the soul of creativity.
The Renaissance occurred after the crises of the late Middle Ages, which halted European stability and transitioned humanity to Modernity with great social change - including recovery from the Great Famine, Black Death, demographic collapse, political instabilities, and religious upheavals. The intellectual basis of the Renaissance was humanism, a new thinking that became manifest in art, architecture, literature, science, and politics.
Forrest believes that we are now emerging into the New Renaissance, birthing a new society with elevated respect and compassion for all sentient beings and our Mother Earth. During this transition, humanity will move beyond cognitive and emotional intelligence into the higher level of spiritual intelligence. So, the intellectual basis of the New Renaissance is transcendence, which will bring a new level thinking that will become manifest in art, architecture, politics, science, and literature, and move us toward a multi-dimensional world where we can experience the soul of creativity.
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