“Art has always been the raft on to which we climb to save our sanity”.
Dorothea Tanning
I liked this image in my mind's eye and something about the simplicity of the notion of a raft seemed manageable.
I don't come to art with any sense of high-faluting experience, wisdom or understanding. I come to art with a quiet appreciation of what it can offer us - as makers and creators, and as viewers and experiencers of art.
It interests and intrigues me at times, how when I am shocked or angered; saddened or delighted, that it is to the making of art that I turn. I turn to art as a means of expressing these feelings and also, to simply respond to the initiating factors in some way - to say something.
These words ring true as we face so many strange and difficult times - for many of us art is indeed a raft onto which we climb to save ourselves and others.
Dreamboat 'believe' - 2010
Dorothea Tanning
I liked this image in my mind's eye and something about the simplicity of the notion of a raft seemed manageable.
I don't come to art with any sense of high-faluting experience, wisdom or understanding. I come to art with a quiet appreciation of what it can offer us - as makers and creators, and as viewers and experiencers of art.
It interests and intrigues me at times, how when I am shocked or angered; saddened or delighted, that it is to the making of art that I turn. I turn to art as a means of expressing these feelings and also, to simply respond to the initiating factors in some way - to say something.
These words ring true as we face so many strange and difficult times - for many of us art is indeed a raft onto which we climb to save ourselves and others.
Dreamboat 'believe' - 2010
Wonderful- all aboard! My meditative stitching is certainly a raft for me.
ReplyDeleteYes Louise - we should all grab a raft and go!!
DeleteF - really like this thought - the idea of a raft to climb onto to save sanity seems so apt at times. B
ReplyDeleteSo apt and so necessary...
Deleteoh yes!
ReplyDeleteIndeedy!
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