ABSTRACTIONS

Abstractions span the whole of life experiences and expressions and can encompass a wealth of materials and techniques. They connect with ourselves and others. What we see and experience in our daily life may seem insignificant at first. But through the creative process itself, the image starts to slowly emerge somewhere from inside. The experience and memory has just been resting in a subliminal state and just waiting to assert itself. That’s how all my abstractions come about. This image, “Labyrinthine” came out of an experience I had as I walked along a roadside and saw an unusual thicket of vines. You could enter it and get lost, I thought. Then I went home and later in the day, started printing and somehow the experience kept asserting itself. Rather spooky I think, but none the less significant. Because we are actually talking about the universal language that abstractions have. This piece was accepted in the Southcoast New England Printmaking catalog exhibition at the college of Visual and Performing Arts Gallery of the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA. a long time ago, but it still resonates.