|   | | Tom Raterman Artist and post-modern theologian |
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Tom Raterman c/o: sacred space, R.R.# 4
Tottenham, ON L0G 1W0
Canada
| | Artist's Statement My art is: 1. the process by which I resolve my 'existential unease'; 2. the product of that process; 3. a method for others to explore the same topics; 4. an historical record. When I look retrospectively at my art I find that it has coalesced around the intuitive pull I feel to discover a metaphysical ground, an ultimate reference point from which all meaning is derived...something formerly called 'god'. Every artist needs an obsession to generate the energy to create and this is mine....
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| | This gallery contains work that deals with mortality and the aging process. Our culture is youth oriented and tries to hide or reverse the aging process. These paintings are about the natural aging process and the emotions that are common to it. |
| | Personal growth is about change and change is about leaving one place and going on a journey to somewhere else. We often feel a nostalgia for the places that we leave - weather they be situations, people, or geography. Our past is embedded in us but we will... |
| | Love is one of the most complicated experiences we have. It takes many forms and often ambushes us. It is demanding and each experience of it marks us till the end of our days. |
| | The art in this gallery is about those times when we have passed through difficult times and emerge as a changed person. |
| | Every society has instinctively created a priest/shaman role for itself. It may reside in one profession or broken up into many, but each society will have 'priests' - experts that connect and interpret the visible and invisible worlds. Shamans, priests,... |
| | These paintings have an expectancy about them. Something is coming, it has been announced but is, of yet, unidentified. It seems to me ( following Nietzsche's lead) that we are living in the in-between time when the old gods have fled and the new god has... |
| | This gallery contains traditional religious subjects in untraditional ways. |
| | The sculptures in this gallery were made from plastic film that I melted paint, foil, objects, and images into. Several of them were hangings that floated in mid-space and measured 25 or 30 feet long by 6 to 8 feet wide - yet weighed only a few pounds which... |
| | Every life is a journey and within that journey there are developmental passages. In an artist's life these passages take the form of bodies of work that deal with the resolution of issues that the artist is involved with at that time. The following... |
| | The paintings in this gallery are about the relativity of truth. |
| | "For some reason when I tried this before, it wouldn't record. I'm trying again. I really appreciate all of your work. Ginny"| -- Virginia Seewer, 6/6/08 |
"Really enjoyed this Tom. I've always appreciated the connection between words and images, and I love the way your descriptions bring the pictures to another level and vis versa. I got half way through and will visit again for the rest."| -- John Schmelefske, 2/11/08 |
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