MOMENTS

Artists Statement

As the works evolve, they construct and deconstruct themselves, mirroring the emergence and dissolving of thoughts, feelings and sensations as they unfold within the container of the medium.

Drawing is like breathing, sensing directly, and evolving the work on raw canvas, feels like the way a tablecloth, a sheet, or a wall collects stains, or the skin we live in rides its years. Materials chosen, are “of the earth,” (charcoal, graphite, pastel,) somehow elemental, like dust, pollen or sediment.

Things seen, everyday oddments, notes to oneself, collision, anxiety, emptiness, clarity; this is the bric-a brac accumulation of mind-time and body-listening.

Accretions of response and adjustment; thoughts and felt sense surrender to the moment, bearing witness to the continuum of the “now” and the lure of the half-formed, latent state. Touch, layering, erasure, become material embodiments for experience, accumulating the real-time spaces of presence.

A residual language, an eroded surface and place emerge, mapping the imprint of being here, awareness, steadfastness, vulnerability; an indexical notation for life’s touch.

The slow and generous act of looking negotiates this intimacy of consciousness.

Tricia Gillman LG