A more formal artist statement is below. I am about to leave for NYC to give a workshop on collaboration through what I call
conversation drawings at the School of Visual Art. I have given such workshops for psycho-therapists for Core Energetics groups in the past, and with drawings students, but not for academics, per se. I have been musing about ways in which listening plays a part in collaboration, and the range of assertion-response-passivity that invariably accompanies collaboration. Sometimes one leads, sometimes both assert (and no one "listens" at all), sometimes there is timidity and passivity and both just ornament each other's marks...that is what I want to explore.
My work is, in a very attenuated sense collaboration with a given ground on the surface of the canvas. I create the chaos that I later sort out with color, forms and a sense of push or energy moving through.
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| Los Amarillos, 2013, 24" x 30, acrylic on canvas |
