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My working practice is to get into a state of flow and connection with the source and to try to maintain a receptive inquiry that does not judge, alter or eliminate, but still chooses and composes. This is difficult. To claim the freedom to create in this way, without making meaning, yet trusting that meaning is inherent and will reveal itself in time, is joyful. I often surrender to the temptation to simply play with color and shapes but am soon drawn back to the truth that artist Anne Truitt expressed when she wrote, “I would be a fool to sacrifice joy to fun”. This is why I make art--to have this experience. I trust that it is more than personal expression because it comes from a place so clearly larger than I am. I also trust that my art will be a communion with others that enlarges life in some way. The more I give myself to the visual, the less able I am to verbalize my experience. This atrophy is probably a necessary component for me, as I learn to let the art speak for itself. |
