Cher Odum

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When I began developing my signature style with the big feet, small head, overall distorted body image, and the wild different colored hair in some, I was thinking about women in general. Being a woman myself, and working with women, and especially adolescents, I've observed how we all seem to hate what we see in the mirror. Our feet are too big, our bums are outrageously huge, we feel clumsy and awkward (and we are even more so during adolescents), and think so 'small' of ourselves - - hence the small head. However, we are all beautiful beings, if only we could really see our being-ness. We are wiser than we know. That's where the pearls come from (pearls of wisdom) and the music I've portrayed in some of the paintings. The eyes have a sense of knowing, which comes from being bright beings, and our many different lifetimes here on earth, and in between. In the paintings where the figure is painted, in parts, outside the border, I am showing a breaking out of the box people try to put us in - - and how our being-ness is too large to be contained. The paintings where the woman is running, leaping, dancing above the mountains and trees show a free spirit - - larger than life - - and anything is possible if only we believe it.
The colors that I use most in my work represent success (yellow); life, energy, courage (red); healing, abundance, growth (green); strength, truth (blue); and purity and light (white).

In my photographs I try to capture the beauty that is all around us everyday, no matter where we might be.

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