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An American rapper helped a Sault Ste. Marie artist get in tune with her latest project.
Karin Doleske's Algoma Paintings: Memory and Metaphor at Play will be exhibited at Studio Vogue Gallery in Toronto Sept. 11 to Oct. 2.
Inspiration for about 18 oil works, two years in the making, came after listening to several of Eminem's alblums. Born Marshal Mathers, he grew up poor in several communities in Missouri and Detroit.
"He really tried to break out of the harshness of his own past," she said.
"I appreciated that with myself as being a new Canadian."
Doleske is originally from Germany, but has lived in the Sault for about 35 years.
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Stories others shared about living in the North, and venturing out herself to see where people established homes in rough terrain, left their mark. Northern Ontario offers much physical beauty, she said, but is
also a challenging place to live.
"I thought this is a beautiful area and it's also rather harsh," she said.
"It's just an understanding and appreciation that the beauty also has a lot of depth in behind it like feeling and emotion and people struggling."
The Algoma University College graduate represented that rough environment by tearing, cutting and burning each of the canvasses included in the exhibit.
Doleske, who studied at the Ontario College of Art for two years didn't sketch or photograph any natural scenes fro Algoma to act as reference points for her paintings.
"My work is not so much visual, as in external visual, but it's internal visual," she said.
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"I basically drew what I thought were patterns in my life, or paths I took in my life. These were not just my paths, but other people's paths."
Doleske, who has also shown her art locally and in Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Bancroft, wants to hear what others think of her work during the three week showing in Toronto.
"I've been working by myself without much input," she said.
"I thought, 'Put it in the public sphere and see what happens.' You work for a long time and you just want some feedback."
"I thought, 'Put it in the public sphere and see what happens.' You work for a long time and you just want some feedback."
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