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paint and paper

One of my favourite techniques is to give myself a kind of prompt, using colour swatches to get myself started. These images all began with a few brushes of paint. I then responded to what appeared with hand cut paper elements. As the series evolved, I added quoted sections of text, based on what the finished image suggested. In some cases, the quotes may be clarifying. In others, I hope they suggest a meaning you might not have expected.

For three hours she was weightless,

pulse racing, but ate her dinner

alive to see an orbital sunrise.

From ‘Laika’ by Claire Williamson

Wood on cloth on cord

Forming a waving wall, a flag, a sail

Catch me hanging sheets out in the sun

Exposed, unveiled and holy

Undone

From "Wood on Cloth on Cord" By Amy Benedict

I am the reason the birds are missing...

I am made of dirt and grit and stars

and river, skin, bone, leaf, whiskers and

claws...I am energy and I am dust.

from Eve Ensler's "Apology"

And indeed there will be a time

for the yellow smoke that slides along the street.

From "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot

no shoes now

to arrive - or

depart

no wind but

this waiting which

moves you

From Toy Boat by Ocean Vuong

The waking spirit attends, the loving spirit gazes

without ammunition, without touch, and comes to know at last

Out of a silence only and never when the body blazes

That love is present, that always burns alone, however steadfast.

From Canticle 6 by May Sarton

and how every so often I find a rock

the ocean rolled into a heart. how easy it is

to place all my longing and awe

on its small narrow shoulders.

how it too was broken before

it was rolled smooth

and how on its tiny petrified body

I lay my wonder."

from ""In the Surf" by Daniela Elza

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