The act of painting has a pulse; it is something that works though the senses to unfold itself and enables the mind to be stretched to a mystic and creative wavelength where there is no limit to discovery, to the secret and the unknown...
These are some ideas elaborated as I worked on my sketchbook. My sketchbook started as a visual account of what could be worth researching on.It hardly contains words as I have always asserted that words can be tricky and most of the time words constraint and control the viewer's experience. I have often thought about the brightness of my compositions and the myopic condition of my eyes. Can there be a subconscious connection as I am always on the borderline of exaggeration with my mark-making? This is an interesting observation as without my glasses/contact lenses; my life would have been nothing more than blurriness and without the detailed.
"An artwork can transport a person in a soulful, rich way without having any fear of punishment—or Hell, or sin, or any of those other good things," says the artist Mary Heilmann , reflecting upon the relationship between her work and her childhood, as featured in this clip from ART21's "Fantasy" episode (http://a21.tv/MaryHeilmannFantasy).
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