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. They seem like objects found in nature: shells on a beach, or patterns in sand, though filled with personal meaning. So they represent the aspect of creativity that’s natural, uncontrolled, unselfconscious … while the overlaid drawing represents its artistic duality: more conscious, willfully formed, cognizant.
The organic patterns of the floating colors suggest the nerves and blood and bones of the body’s interior. The final drawings arise from a relationship between the floating colors and the figurative image.