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Life Force
pastel on hand-made paper
40" x 32"
1994
private collection
This pastel is painted on the thickest, ost
beautiful piece of hand-made paper I have ever had the proivilege of working
on. It is embedded with flecks of metallic fiber. I chose to paint on the
screen side of the sheet. By this time, I had been using buttery soft hand-made
pastels as well. These wonderful colors lay beautifully on the texture of
this sheet.
The imagery came from internal sources.
I did not usually paint figurative imagery. This image came to me one evening
in the form of a thumbnail sketch. The painting was simply an exploration
of that sketch. Four years later, the life force prose came to me along
with the experience of coming out of my cocoon.
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