At times it's difficult to put into words where some of my motifs and images come from...My little "mind movies". Daydreams. Closed-Eye-Visuals. Sometimes I'll get clips or almost scene-stills of them. I'll start from there or from traces of faint ones that kinda flash by. Intuitively, I try to let them build their own momentum and feel out when I think they're complete. Some sit for days to years before coming back to them.
What intrigues and excites me most is the synchronicity of when I catch up to myself or my feelings they've evoked. This one's doing that for me now. My feelings on what's going on in the world right now. The beaten and wounded yet still fighting. The oppressed and oppressor wielding instruments of destruction sounds appropriate...But there's a multitude of experiences, sensations, emotions, individuals..untethering The body. How can anyone really cope with that? And yet there's a grin in there too. They've been through Hell and it looks like they are going to continue. I think that's it for now.
"Wartorn"
pencil and ink on paper.
11x14 in.
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