My North Star

In case you may have noticed, nature is a significant source of inspiration for my art and life.

Some years ago, I created an art manifesto to describe how the living world is a taproot for my creativity. It grew to include aspirations for my paintings, designs, and writings.

The following serves as my North Star of goals that keep my work authentic, sustainable, and fresh.

Art Manifesto

by Marlene Sinicki

Wonder

• Reimagine the natural world.
• Cultivate beauty in the imperfect.
• Seek out the interconnectedness of nature.
• Contemplate micro and macro perspectives of ecology.

Engagement

• Explore what is not certain.
• Design bold multi-sensory experiences.
• Create designs unbounded by convention.
• Fascinate through unlikely juxtapositions.
• Conceive harmoniously among contradictions.
• Design with recycled, repurposed and natural materials.

Nature

• Interpret the natural environment poetically.
• Celebrate the aesthetic in the chaos of nature.
• Engage with sustainability by integrating into daily life.
• Make aesthetic design a sustainable way of life, not a commodity.
• Recognize beauty and aesthetic expression are universal human desires.
• Utilize patterns and systems of living world to enhance sustainable solutions.

Your artistic vision

What motivates you, and what do you need to do to fulfill your ambitions? Taking the time to write them down helps clarify your thoughts. They can also be a powerful source of inspiration for future projects. Ready, set, go!