Discerning the Ego: watercolor and charcoal on paper and ink on vellum

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Monday, December 13, 2010

Place and Line

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."