floating colors - a different balance of real and imagined … and a different relationship to the crystalline webs of the floating colors
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These papers become the foundation for overlaid drawing, with charcoal, pastel pencil, and oil crayon.
Even though I’ve created them myself, they seem like objects found in nature – shells on a beach, or patterns in sand, though filled with personal meaning. They represent the aspect of creativity that’s natural, uncontrolled, unselfconscious … while my overlaid drawing represents its artistic duality: more conscious, willfully formed, cognizant.
The surface of the water is like the plane of consciousness, a lens for the eye of imagination to be refocused.