Raquel Paiewonsky--- Soical Issues

Simbiosis para salvarnos (Symbiosis for survival)

Raquel Paiewonsky

Symbiosis for survival by Misha Lyuve

topics: dominican republic, Martin Creed, Raquel Paiewonsky, santo domingo, Simbiosis para salvarnos

Jan 27, 2011

Raquel Paiewonsky is a contemporary artist that currently resides in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Her work has traveled across the globe. It expolores human body, urban life, social constructs and social issues. The photographs featured in this article are from the project Simbiosis para salvarnos (Symbiosis for survival) that has been shown in Santo Domingo, Miami, Lima, Buenos Aires, and is heading to Mexico soon.

There is a type of artwork that when you see it for the first time, it makes such an impression on you that you need to pause – that was my experience of Symbiosis para survir, the project that came out of the Raquel’s concern for the environment and tells a story of integration with nature as a strategy for growth and expansion of our lives and our planet. Children with their heads under the roots of the plants are the seeds needed to fulfill the mission to heal the Earth.

http://lyuve.com/blog/art/symbiosis-for-survival/

Although Raquel Paiewonsky is using photography as her chosen medium in this instance, you could easily communicate the same subject matter with other media, either two dimensionally or three dimensionally.

I have no problem with you appropriating (borrowing, modifying and making one's own) images from any source, as long as you make significant changes and contributions to the images.  So, you could support your artistic vision with photographs and text from any source, but create your artwork in such a way that it stands on its own artistic merit.  Exercise creativity in support of your idea/theme.  D. Exner