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ARTIST STATEMENT: I have painted and written poetry since I was very young, but until now I had not combined these forms of expression in a formal way. While I have written poetry for many years, there has always been something about it that felt incomplete, the imprinted words felt too black and white, too cerebral. Over the years I had laid poems side by side with watercolors in journals and sketchbooks. I realized something was happening there, between the poems and those tactile, color-filled images. It brought a new dimension to that luminous trajectory between words and wordlessness. So I decided to devote myself to this as a specific form of expression, poem and image, side by side. With each work the poem was my starting point. The final version evolved from a counterpoint between image and text that I found fascinating. The poems had very different needs in terms of format, some needing small and intimate ground, others a more bold and broadly framed space. These works arise from moments of great joy and peace. If there is one thing all of these works have in common, I believe it is that they speak to a certain edge of life, “the brink of things” – a place where new beginnings are to be found. |
Ocean Country Click here for a larger image of Ocean Country (jpeg) Click here for the Ocean Country text only (pdf) Flying Blind |
