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Naomi Nicole Morrow is a 31-year-old Artist and Social Worker who is visually impaired. Her artistry captures textural and sculptural forms sculpture, while her paintings flow with colorfully vibrant brilliancy. Historically she created what she consider to be her very first real 'piece' at age twelve titled 'Coloured Mystique' which was created using ink and watercolors.
"The exploration into the world of ceramics and creating sculptural forms came the fall of 1997 at age 18 during my freshman year of college. Over the past thirteen years I've been working in clay I have completely fallen in love with clay's tactile appeal and malleable nature that it possess. From the very first time I had ever touched clay there was this unspoken instantaneous connectedness and captivation that can only be described as 'magically intoxicating'.
My work very much reflects the various universal human emotions and conditions including my own as it relates to the various experiences, thoughts and feelings that I've endured throughout life both on a societal and personal level. However, I take great interest in drawing upon the experiences, thoughts, and perspective from other and somehow intertwine their emotions and feelings within those experiences, as if I'm truly capturing the true essence of what's taking place within their world within any given minute or second.
In addition, my work also explores the never ending and often fascinatingly wondrous beauty of shape (curves), texture and color from a tactile perspective. I apply various earth elements into my work such as, sticks, pinecones, and tree bark to leave various impressions in the clay body for textural surfaces. Pushing artistic and creative boundaries of how one can 'view' a visual concept such as color or shape through the experimentation process of mixing and or changing the idea of 'viewing' colors or shapes from a visual perspective and transforming it into a tactile perspective. For example, I enjoy capturing the color yellow and it's beauty from a non-visual standpoint but rather instead capture how the color makes one feel internally. Yellow to me feels warm and it's beauty radiates into me through the warmth that it gives off, so often times I want to somehow create that sensation of warmth into my work weather its reflected in an abstract painting or within a clay sculpture that's textured.
Additionally, Painting for me brings a certain free flowing sense of freedom, pure emotion and movement within the paintings. I've always been attracted to the sporadic randomness and modern flare that abstraction brings forth and how to colors seem to colorfully dance in sequenced harmony across the canvas.
My visual impairment has lent itself beautifully to my work because it's allowed me to always think outside the box and to bend and break artistic boundaries. After all I believe 'creativity' is meant to be touched and experienced through a tactilely dimensional sensory process."
'Power lives within creativity, Creativity lives within power'