Discerning the Ego: Who are YOU?

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Who are YOU?

Home, oh Home, Home is whenever I am with you

I am currently working on a series based on the home and the importance of family. Lately i have been noticing the common trend of the disintegration of the family and the effect that it has on society. I am a firm believer that it is the family that is the foundation and building block of our growth and it crucial to hold on to. With these watercolors studies, I have specifically been focusing on positive symbols of women in the home; delicate, warm, aged, pretty and fruitful.

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Rachel TaylorOctober 2, 2010 at 5:28 PM
I love it! You're so talented! I actually just joined a student journal called, Stance: For the Family which all about protecting the family. You should check it out when we publish :D
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I am interested in interactions around me; observing the push and pull that the environment has on us, interactions between humans, and relationships within our bodies are what drive me as a person. However, how many of these interactions don't come through in words? What are you saying with your thoughts, your mood, heart, energy and body?

Artist Amy Stillman expresses my thoughts best when she says,

"Every day I welcome the raw, the goofy, the urgent, the eccentric, the disrupting, the associative and dissociative, the distracted, the embarrassing, the transient, the interesting, and the fearsome into my life, and language is the welcome mat, the first translation device from the body of sensate cues I intuit. Painting is a physical thinking process to continue an interior dialogue, way to engage in a kind of internal discourse, or sub-language, mumbling, rambling, a stream of thought, murmuring, thinking out loud, naming, uttering, a voice in your head. So language is not just a cognitive device, a ground of critique, a pedagogical mechanism, a negotiable social structure."