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Bennett’s abstract art shimmers
with color and texture.
The hallmark and confluence of her lifework—
painting, weaving, writing, metalworking, building in nature—stems from a shift in consciousness while living with the Diné (Navajo) in New Mexico for eight years. Bennett’s art
has gained depth and definition through life experience. Her four-decades-long series, The Infinite Moment, is comprised of abstract paint- ings with layers of textured iridescence built on each other until a non-erosive mesa, a moun- tain, Mother Earth emerges from the canvas and monumentally rises to meet (and mate) Father Sky. At its core it honors the sacredness of this union and the need for female and male energies to be in balance. Bennett views these pieces as akin to a visual mantra, each work manifesting the archetypal T. Taw: Interstice of Horizontal & Vertical. Unity out of duality. “Not two but One.” Beauty. Balance. Blessing.
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