Email:
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Metal Evanglina: www.myspace.com/metal_evangelina
Website: cynthiahandloser.tripod.com
Gallery: http://cynthiahandloser.deviantart.com
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Youth Myspace: www.myspace.com/extremeministry
Meeting Times:
10am - Sunday School
11am - Sunday Worship
6pm - Sunday Evening Worship
6pm - Wednes. Youth
7pm - Adult and Children Worship
~Located behind DQ in the city of Prestonsburg, KY
Appalachia is the home of my heart. As a Christian Appalachian artist and writer my work is focused around folklore and Christ. I am untraditional because I use modern applications, subject matter and trained techniques which found its way into my life as a child.
Quoted from Wikipedia:
"Prior to the 20th century, the people of Appalachia were geographically isolated from the rest of the country. As a result, they preserved the culture of their ancestors (most of them English, Scottish, Scotch-Irish, and Irish) who settled the region in the 18th century. The region's culture includes a strong oral tradition (including music and song), self-sufficiency, and strong religious faith. Coal deposits in the region were tapped in the latter half of the 19th century and drew a new wave of immigrants from Ireland and Central Europe. With this industrialization came increased urbanization.
Long characterized as economically underdeveloped, Appalachia has received more sympathetic treatment by historians and anthropologists in recent decades. The Foxfire project, an anthology of writings that began in 1972, appealed to the counterculture and gave the region new visibility in academia."
Because of Diana Jones, my high school art teacher, she
gave me books to study on my own time. Our art classes
were extremely poor and not funded. I was very curious
about abstract art and design elements that never were
included in my environment. I pressed myself and my luck
as far as I could to understand art outside of folk arts
to take them to a new level, not escape them. I hoped that others in my state would break the mold as well and to my surprize found many in the 90's to the presents doing so in Kentucky.
So that brings us to my life. Family is very important to me. My father was a Peabody's Gibraltar coal miner who's family came from Germany. My family line Moegling has a crest, but not as common as the Kirkman crest of my mother's family. His father(my grandfather) come to the states to work in the steel industry of Ashland, KY. I am my mother's daughter with roots from the English Kirkman(or churchman and we amazingly can as well trace back to Vikings). Her line has Irish men, the Scots, and Native Americans that I am still searching for. I married a wonderful man who had German kin as well. My interests are in humanities, economics, visual and language arts, anthropology, and music and above all Christianity.
I have a BA Degree from Morehead State University(1999-2002)and have studied at the Art Academy of Cincy, OH, and through Johannas Kepler University in Bregenz, Austria, Munich, Germany, the Hague, Netherlands. I transfered in 1997 from Murray State University to Northern Ky University and Cincy Art Academy to presue my art/anthopology interests and decided to study Aboriginal art on my own in Winnipeg, Manitoba. At that time, Native American Art and study was limited in KY and was taught rarely in College. I attended the folk fest there helping a friend sell jewelry and was volenteering alot of my time to helping the homeless until my health started failing me in 1999.
My health has got the best of me. I never got to return to the Academy. I chose to help my mother and father (who had lost his eye sight due to being diabetic) in turn helped me finish my degree and continue my art interests of German Art History and Abstract Expressionism, Holocaust and World War I and II Poetry, German Design and Trauma Art theory and therapy throughout Germany's history (post WW I&II). My father passed away in 2001. Since 2002 I have become very sick with asthma and arthritis, since then, I have devoted myself to the creation of my Christian Fantasy trilogy, Beyond Flesh which honestly I hope to publish. It is somewhat comparable to Narnia by C.S. Lewis.
"I work solely out of a studio room in Eastern Kentucky.
Currently, it has accumulated over 100 different pieces
for my trilogy. It is 75% of my life's total achievement
in the Visual Arts. My work consists of a wide range of
styles & media I explore and express myself. I begin..end
my process with a computer generated image. Starting
with quick sketches, taking photographs and studying
impressions my eye & motor skills come up with, I then
prepare the sketches or photos to be scanned and work
with the images in layers with software interchangeably.
My preferences are Photoshop 5.5 and Illustrator 9.0. as
well as Corel Painter Pro XI and Artweaver 0.4.
For Beyond Flesh, I work solely out of my imagination in
idealized world based off of our own. My visual experiences
comes from a lot of prayer, concentration, as well as study
into the natural world around me, anatomy, and the Word
of God".
From isolation and insanity wakes a realm of wonder
to where what lies beyond, is it real? What is real;
may dreams breath? One girl’s pain and suffering will
take us past the fabric of our own world into once upon
a time in Faesyde’ faeries and angels slept, loved and
fought for their right to believe in themselves and the
abundance of God’s love..
Sara Walker is not your typical young woman. She’s a
young lady who has the ability to mentally visit another
realm of existence. Her mind is crumbling and any chance
of Sara leading a normal life seems sure be hanging by a
thread. Sara only wants to be a healthy normal teenager.
Yet from abnormal intuition to mental institution, this
is impossible. Within the cabin walls of her grandmother’s
home, finally she finds a peace in her soul that tears down
the barriers between her schizophrenia and years of neglect
her parents’ harbored, that peace is the love of Jesus Christ.
Breaking these bounds will take Sara deep into a fanciful
land within her heart or deep within the ethereal elements
of nature itself? Is there a fine line? A question Sara
must answer to save herself from death and free her lost
soul to overcome her illness and stop the spiritual
holocaust of Faesyde’.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Investigative Prolong:
Chapter Index:
Introduction: Blameless Duty
Chapter 1: Waking of the Realm
An Angel’s Sorrow
The Gathering Begins
The Masses Arrival
Chapter 2: Red Rock’s Story
A Fish in the Sky
A Mage’s Betrayal
Chapter 3: Into the Void
An Angel’s Saga
Book 2 Insert:
Character Index:
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