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From Art painter and Creative writer/ Educator ASYLA TEN HOLT

RECENTLY I CAME TO ACKNOWLEDGE HOW BEST TO EXPLAIN MY PAINTINGS - IT'S A NARRATIVE IMAGERY CONCEPT COMBINED WITH LYRICAL OR PROSAIC-STYLE. THIS WAY OF EXPRESSING I KEPT SOMEWHAT  UN –INTENTIONALLY HDDEN NOT TO  LOOK AT IT LITERATELY ENOUGH EXCEPT I'D  SCRIBBLED DOWN SOMEWHAT RHYTHMICALLY (FEW BOOKLETS IN PAST THROUGH INSTINCT) AND  USE AS ILLUSTRATION FOR MY  PAINTING.  A MORE PROFESSIONAL APPROACH TO THE LITERATE ARTICULATION GIVES A BETTER IMPACT ON THE WHOLE OF PROSE WITH VISUAL ART, THANKS TO THE CALLA LOO CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS WHICH I THEN STARTED ATTENDING.

MY AIM IS TO CULTIVATE MORE LIABILITIES INTO MY CREATIVE WRITING AND VISUAL ART-  KEEP ADDING HUMOR AND MORAL OF LIFE AND PUT MY OWN PERSONAL FEELING TO QUESTION ( THE DEEPER ASPECT).   FIGURES, SYMBOLS WITH ABSTRACT OR METALHYSICAL EXPOSURES ARE PERSPECTIVES SEEN IN MY ART, USING OIL OR MIXED MEDIA AS TOOL ON CANVAS. NOWADAYS I ALSO WORK WITH REFURBISHED ART.

BESIDES BEING INFORMED WITH   ANTILLEAN  CARIBBEAN CREATIVE WRITERS AND POETS-  THE INTEREST  IS GROWING FOR THE CONTEMPORARY-AFRICAN-AMERIAN LITERATURE TO CAPTURE THEIR TREND AND FEELING AT HOW THEY  WRITE CONTEMPORANEOUSLY  AND TO KNOW THE BETTER CONNECTION INSIDE THE DIASPORA; THE GLOBALLY UNION, INSPIRING  PEOPLE OF  AFRICAN-DESCENT TO MAKE THEIR PURPOSE GREATER FOR A BETTER CAUSE OF ACCEPTANCE. THAT’S WHY AFTER BEING TO GHANA FOR ART-RESIDENCY PROJECTS 2011; THE INSPIREMENT CAME TO PUT THE COMBINATION OF CREATIVE WRITING WITH CONCEPTUAL ART (STUDIED THIS IN 1999) WORTHED TO THE FOREGROUND ONTO A BOLD TRADITION.

MY STUDIES GAVE WAY TO UNDERSTAND  THE BOLD TECHNIQUES  AND PUT ME TO QUESTION  MYSELF/HOW TO USE LINGUISTICALLY (ENGLISH)-THE INTERFERENCE OF  MY BACKGROUND, MY 'PAPIAMENTU' (NATIVE TONGUE), ENGLISH AND DUTCH SPOKEN LANGUAGES, WHILE MY  CULTURE RELIES AS A GREAT SIGNIFICANCE BEING A NARRATIVE ARTIST  - THEN FINALLY THE COMMITMENTS TO PUBLISHING HAVE TO COME.

I INSPIRE IN ENGLISH THROUGH MY  RELATIVES-CONNECTIONS FROM WINWARD ISLANDS AND THE STATES WHILE I LIVE AND WORK (30 YEARS IN ART) IN CURACAO - LEEWARD ISLAND FROM WHICH 10 YEARS IN BONAIRE. ( a more Latin-Caribbean-European genre)

I'M PREPARING FOR A WORKSHOP - REFURBISHED ART/PROSE  FOR YOUNGSTERS AND ADULTS AT THE NATIONAL LIBRARY IN  CURACAO-WHICH RECENTLY HAD BEEN INAUGURATED with the name TO FAMOUS WRITER FRANK MARTINUS ARION.

FINALLY I'M PREPARING FOR A  GROUP SHOW AT ICAFAIR -INTERN.CARIB FAIR IN WASHINGTON.- DECEMBER 2012 ORGANIZED BY CARIBBEAN ART WORLD. (asylatenholt-art.com)