Through my art and social change projects I explore what it means to be a visionary and intuitive.
I believe it is the responsibility of the artist to use what they see and feel in the world as a beacon of social change, positive transformation and as a means to educate, lead and reflect.
I make my projects public as a means to share and often as a means to gather enrollment, manifest solutions and to foster connectivity.
Artists... have an important role in society.
We hold a space...
for communication.
A space...
to decode the complex rhetoric
of the everyday.
Artists are the eyes...
of the blind
who do not know they cannot see.
We are the hearts...
of the blocked
who do not know they are confined.
We are the ears...
of the deaf
who do not know how to listen.
We are the senses...
of society.
And the mouthpiece
for a message.
We are modern day shamans.
We are artists.
~Annelies Gentile 2005
photo taken with Gwendolyn Rae Garrett