The COVID Years

Oh, yes... COVID... (sigh)

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I'll readily admit that, despite my comfortable relationship with silence and solitude (as an ambivert), feeling STUCK at home is something entirely different from CHOOSING to stay at home. So, I certainly struggled with the anxiety created by the COVID lockdown and its after effects, especially as someone who doesn't stress about much, which (oddly) probably only augmented the overall experience for me.

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But, this anxiety did something interesting and important for my work as well, forcing me to return to my roots, of Automatic Drawing, and forcing me to find center once again, using experience as an informed lens for evaluating the outflow of impressions.

 

Still, one of the trickiest parts about Automatism is actually providing titles for the work, which first requires deciphering whether an image is pregnant with meaning, or, if it purely means what it says on the surface.

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In fact, even the most obvious details are often only intimations of meaning (narratives within a broader narrative) that can easily be misunderstood if isolated from other details. After all, just like the event of life, every variable involved plays an important role in presenting the subject or idea, collectively providing clues that help to tell the story.