| With her ongoing series of paintings titled "Landscape Before Dying," Mamie Holst explores the inspiring abstract landscape within her experience of chronic fatigue and immune disfunction syndrome. Since 1989, when she was diagnosed with CFIDS and forced to return home, she has mined her syndrome related sensations for her work's static, tremor, crosshairs, elegance, distortion, drift, space, targets, voids, isolation, and peace. They remind me of the silent black and white leader counting down to the beginning of a film. Mamie Holst noted that "I feel like I don't really think anymore. Of course I still think or else I wouldn't function obviously, but it's a much more basic type of thinking. It's like if you try to think big thoughts your brain hits a blank wall. When painting, it just sort of comes out. While looking at a finished painting, I can't really remember how I did it. I know where I put the lines down etc., but most of the decision making is more subconscious." |  |
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Landscape Before Dying (Toward Exiting #6), 2003; acrylic paint on canvas; 22 x 22” | |
Landscape Before Dying (Fated #3), 2005; acrylic paint on canvas; 36 x 36” |
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Landscape Before Dying (Ghost #3), 2004; acrylic paint on canvas; 37 x 35” |
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Landscape Before Dying (Mirage #2), 2004; acrylic paint on canvas; 36 x 36” |
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Landscape Before Dying (Toward Exiting #7), 2003; acrylic paint on canvas; 29 x 24” | |
Landscape Before Dying (Conundrum), 2005; acrylic paint on canvas; 16 x 16” |
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Landscape Before Dying (Omen), 2004; acrylic paint on canvas; 20 x 20” |
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Landscape Before Dying (Pain #2), 2005; acrylic paint on canvas; 45 x 24” |
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Landscape Before Dying (Ghost #4), 2004; acrylic paint on canvas; 40 x 36” |
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Landscape Before Dying (Mirage #3), 2005; acrylic paint on canvas; 24 x 24” |
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