Drawing Two:
My notes - The Inside My Heart is, I think, my best one. It has a wonderfully disturbing quality.
My notes - The Inside My Heart is, I think, my best one. It has a wonderfully disturbing quality.
About this blog
Several years ago I did a series of 99 drawings that I called Middle of the Night Art. That series, and the dialoge between my sister and myself brought me to a place where I finally began to really understand my art, my spirituality, and a sense of who I am in the world. I'm sharing the art and that dialogue here.
My sister's responses, as well as my own, are posted as comments. And I'd love to hear what anyone else has to say.
My sister's responses, as well as my own, are posted as comments. And I'd love to hear what anyone else has to say.
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Categories
- About Us (1)
- apple (1)
- Blue Plate Special (1)
- brick wall (2)
- broken open (2)
- car (1)
- coming out (2)
- Do we really have to come out (1)
- driving (1)
- Driving My Car Off The Road Into Nowhere (1)
- eating (2)
- fence (1)
- fish (3)
- food (2)
- gate (1)
- Gateway (1)
- growing (1)
- Inside My Heart (1)
- Leap and a Net Will Appear (1)
- net (1)
- night (1)
- Ooohh Nooo (1)
- plate (1)
- stake (2)
- swallowed (1)
- The Art Itself (2)
- Title Page (1)
- tree (2)
- Whoa Nelly That might hurt (1)
- worms (1)
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2 comments
Comment by Grace on September 6, 2010 at 4:45 PM
So, I responded intensely to your drawings. I love honesty in art, and there is an unguarded sentience, an emotional force, that comes through in your work. So here are my impressions - not in any particular order. I am struck by the brick walls that frame your pieces - metaphorical for how walled off you feel? but the unbounded that lives within these walls is there, still unbounded - This golam-like creature that lives there, endearing and vulnerable, having been through great neglect and abuse, is aparently ready to break out of jail? It is wonderful and compelling to look at. There is a sense that in the very next instant some light spark will find those blue eyes, and the cobwebs tell me that this moment has been a long time coming. The blue you have chosen has a stern and meloncholy feel, and the red on black has a strikingly oppresive, even angry quality to it. I love how the cob webs have seeped into the bricks, making cracks... is this wall breaking down? Are those webs slowly overtaking it?
Comment by Shirley Twofeathers on September 6, 2010 at 4:46 PM
ok
so thank you for this. it was so ...
i cant seem to find the right word..
yes it is so good to know more
much much more
about the art
and it helped has me to feel better about the work
and has inspired me
with the thought that this is somehow useful and interesting and worthy and good
that i am more than doodling