Coming Full Circle Canvas Print

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"His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever no straight unbroken line, for the rectilinear belongs only to Geometry and not to Nature and Life." Hermann Hesse - from "The Glass Bead Game"

As I was photographing this vintage carousel in New Orleans Audubon Park Zoo one cold January morning, I began to realize how symbolic this usually active and people-filled area could be while quietly contemplated. On this weekday morning, I was the only person in attendance and could wander freely among the gaily painted and whimsical animals. The carousel came to symbolize Life's circle to me, with its ups and downs, but eventually returning to the point of beginning. For we are creatures of habit and make choices based on our life experience, with many of the events repeating, and often foreshadowed by repeating signals. Nature, too, follows this cyclical pattern. I selected a black and white color palette to emph...

Cheri Randolph was awarded a degree in Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans with a concentration in the study of Art History. She credits printmaker, Calvin Harlan , a UNO professor, as being quite influential in her composition techniques as well as painter, Ida Kohlmeyer with a better understanding of color. Pictorialism would best describe her current work, stylistically. Cheri has expressed her artistic talents in a variety of ways including; wheel-thrown pottery, quilting, vintage clothing restoration, interior decorative painting and photography. She is a resident of both the Houston Heights and historic New Orleans Uptown. A favorite quote is, "The bird of time has but a little way to flutter - and the bird is on the...