:: Tidal is the Mind ::
Tidal is the Mind throwing caution to the wind.
Tidal is the Mind shedding an old skin.
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Tidal is the Mind facing the flames.
Tidal is the Mind dancing through pain.
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Tidal is the Mind reborn from ashes.
Tidal is the Mind as the healing begins.
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Tidal is the Mind casting a light in the dark.
Tidal is the Mind of old, upon whose shoulder we stand.
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Tidal is the Mind seeking truth.
Tidal is the Mind as power transmutes.
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Tidal is the Mind renewed by water.
Tidal is the mind as it ebbs and flows.
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Tidal is the Mind cycling with the seasons.
Tidal is the Mind at peace with itself.
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Tidal is the Mind as dreams manifest.
Tidal is the Mind weaving life and death.
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TIDAL is the MIND.
:: From Street to Studio ::
Defying the often restrictive nature of the white cube, Tidal Minds promotes the importance of unique, original artwork that is both accessible and affordable for people from all walks of life. The language of visual arts should not be restricted to a singular discipline or environment but instead be a lens available to all who wish to look sideways at the world and interrogate what is found with a more holistic approach.​​
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The Tidal Minds Studio is owned and run by Sophie Angelica - a multidisciplinary artist specialising in ceramics and illustration. With meticulous attention to detail, Sophie draws from patterns of movement and form observed in the natural world. Her practice considers the temporality of all life, using storytelling as a tool to weave together visual and sculptural sanctuaries for the Tidal Mind.
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Sophie's creative practice grew organically from a street art project which took her around the world, drawing live and selling original artwork from her portable gallery throughout New Zealand, Australia, Europe, UK and United States.
In 2020, Sophie opened an art store in Christchurch offering original one of a kind sculpture and illustration. Drawing inspiration from the Portable Gallery, her shop became a vibrant cultural hub doubling as a gallery and open studio, providing unique behind the scenes insight into the process and practice of a full-time artist.
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She now works full time from her East Coast pottery studio in Blind River.
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The Art of Story Telling
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The natural world serves as a constant reminder of the transient nature of all life.
Patterns of movement, form and thought observed in our surrounding environments directly reflect those we perceive within ourselves, allowing for the recognition of the perpetual limbo within which all life exists.
We all stand upon a precipice of the unknown; upon a threshold of becoming, of not quite being - a permanent state of constant flux.
It is in this liminal plane that our reflections on our inner and outer worlds coalesce and catalyse a shift in understanding, a challenge of perception.
The undoing of the habitual ways we experience our reality.
The potent nature of story telling lies within our ability to sculpt such liminal spaces for our psyches to inhabit;
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A never time, a never place..
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Where the imagination is free to roam.
Where the body is free to be.
Where the mind is free to meditate.
Where the heart is free to heal.
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The level of communication and connection we achieve through the telling of our stories allows us to momentarily interrogate and dissolve the immediate order of the world around us, creating a fluid, flexible environment enabling the establishment of new ideas.
The new ground we cover and reiteration of ancient wisdom we pass on through our stories strengthens the intuitive web used to navigate the inextricable links of our past, present and future.
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For each and every one of us in this present moment, the story has been written.
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But the pen now lies in our hands, and with it the power to forge
Our own truth.
Our own light.
Our own reality.
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We are indeed a direct product of our history but in no way are we defined by it.
Storytelling is one of the most crucial tools available at our fingertips, in the sense it allows for an intrinsic understanding of our pasts. Only with that awareness can we begin to acknowledge the capacity in which we are here today.
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If we fail to put a name to the state of our current collective human experience, there is no way we can make an informed and intuitive decision on how to step into tomorrow.
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The rites of passage witnessed and thresholds transversed within the liminal architecture constructed by our stories are what enable a holistic understanding of not only what it is to be human, but also what it is to be a small but inextricable link in the cyclical ways of the natural world.
