Words
For years, I have been fascinated with words. There was a great deal of time where I did not believe them at all. This was when I was young and experiencing disillusionment with the world on a large scale for the first time. In fact, in the forward of my first coffee table book titled delirium, I spoke about this disbelief in words and how it stemmed from our subjective understanding of every single letter and syllable that makes almost impossible to communicate in society as we all have different opinions and definitions of everything.
As I have gotten older, I have started honoring words and respecting them as beautiful artifacts. When I began my professional art journey whilst obtaining my [generic yet in depth] communications degree at university, I first discovered my obsession with typography, the shapes and art of letter formations, and my greatest desire was to write, type and paint words on top of my photographs in the art school. To my great chagrin, the only thing I can remember hearing on repeat was “to be careful with words and not to add them to my art, they will change the simplicity and meaning of the image.”
I am now in a phase of my life and art career where I am learning to trust my intuition and follow my heart. For years now, I cannot stop collecting words. I usually organize them and add them to my fine art coffee table books. The same way that I have an obsession with collecting flowers and rocks and bones and things in nature that pile up in my studio until I have no other choice, but to add them to a mixed media piece, the letters and words occupied my notebooks and phone notes, digital spaces, places, books and walls. I have visions everyday of different letters, words, symbols and phrases that come to me, like a sword piercing through clouds, needing to touch or create something.
Sometimes clarity comes to my mind in random moments with intuitive sparks, hits, intense ideas burning through my brain, usually some sort of strong feeling that I need to share with the world. Occasionally I am listening to a podcast, reading a book or watching a movie and I will be so captivated by a sentence or a phrase that I will have to write it down and have the burning compulsion to share it, as I do with all of my art
Originally my words series was intended to exist as an addition to my ongoing Nude In Nature series, which I refer to as the base of all my work, but I am now creating raw paintings and more simple art as well. I am adding words not only to my photographs but also to my paintings and plain white paper and spaces.I’m a paragraph. Drag me to add paragraph to your block, write your own text and edit me.
As I have gotten older, I have started honoring words and respecting them as beautiful artifacts. When I began my professional art journey whilst obtaining my [generic yet in depth] communications degree at university, I first discovered my obsession with typography, the shapes and art of letter formations, and my greatest desire was to write, type and paint words on top of my photographs in the art school. To my great chagrin, the only thing I can remember hearing on repeat was “to be careful with words and not to add them to my art, they will change the simplicity and meaning of the image.”
I am now in a phase of my life and art career where I am learning to trust my intuition and follow my heart. For years now, I cannot stop collecting words. I usually organize them and add them to my fine art coffee table books. The same way that I have an obsession with collecting flowers and rocks and bones and things in nature that pile up in my studio until I have no other choice, but to add them to a mixed media piece, the letters and words occupied my notebooks and phone notes, digital spaces, places, books and walls. I have visions everyday of different letters, words, symbols and phrases that come to me, like a sword piercing through clouds, needing to touch or create something.
Sometimes clarity comes to my mind in random moments with intuitive sparks, hits, intense ideas burning through my brain, usually some sort of strong feeling that I need to share with the world. Occasionally I am listening to a podcast, reading a book or watching a movie and I will be so captivated by a sentence or a phrase that I will have to write it down and have the burning compulsion to share it, as I do with all of my art
Originally my words series was intended to exist as an addition to my ongoing Nude In Nature series, which I refer to as the base of all my work, but I am now creating raw paintings and more simple art as well. I am adding words not only to my photographs but also to my paintings and plain white paper and spaces.I’m a paragraph. Drag me to add paragraph to your block, write your own text and edit me.
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