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We start in one place... but then where do we go?

8/20/2023

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Inner Journey. (12" square, mixed-media on cradled wood panel)
These paintings created in June are visually quite a contrast to the quieter, whiter pieces of late. I'd like to share their story with you.

Each of these started one way and evolved completely differently. Did I know in advance where they were going? Absolutely not! That's part of the joy and fear of art making.

I began in April by making and completing three collages using gel-printed papers I'd created. Collage was my intention, and they were quite pretty, but there was something very...placed about them. They were clearly organized and consciously thought about and I liked them, but didn't love them.
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After a while, I decided to use those collages as the basis for the three paintings you see here. I didn't know what I'd do with them, just that I would use paint, and so I began! I went with the intuitive flow, working around some parts of the collages and over most of them.
PictureAscent. (12" square, mixed-media on cradled wood panel)




​What emerged are these somewhat intense pieces that are open to interpretation of a personal nature. They are stronger and deeper now because of their evolution. The names were just what I saw emerging from the paintings — I wonder if you would name them differently? 

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Free Flow. (12" square, mixed-media on cradled wood panel)
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