“She’s has everything and the kitchen sink in her artwork!”
I recently heard the comment noted in the title of this post about my newly completed artwork Adaya. Yet, I don’t really have “everything and the kitchen sink,” as well as the dirty dishes, in my work. Each of the items viewed as unrelated or partially related has a personal significance to me. I have started a new, yet to be finished artwork. In this windowpane or paneled work there is rockfish, herring and chickweed. Chickweed is new to my artwork, but not to me. Why put some of the flowers and leaves under the sea alongside fans of seaweed? I position them there as this is how I see visual memory of place; of skyscapes, landscapes and seascapes. "I PAINT FROM REMEMBERED LANDSCAPES THAT I CARRY WITH ME.” Joan Mitchell Someone might be at the ocean and suddenly declare they see a sea anemone. They will then shift that statement about what they see in front of them to a statement of recollection or association. They will add to their statement “It looks tike the windflower...
