norma dvorsky september 2011
Parsing is the new me.
I am the sponge for too much information, filled with too much desire; becoming a master parser, a gardener of information. My mind is alive, hungry, deadened and full at the same time. I am so much & so little.
My work alludes to the complexities of human interaction and communication. The relationship between our ‘real’, deeper/spiritual selves versus our public selves.
Drawn & intersecting lines refer to maps, roads, blood lines; DNA.
Journeys taken & still to be taken. What eludes us? What captivates us? What sticks to each of us in our individuality through our parallel travels, through culture & ancestral memory?... I add script, letters, text and words to my paintings & under-paintings in an attempt to explain the map and address the subliminal, using the basic communication skill of 'writing'. The text adds a formal structural element to the work. Colour shows up as my wink to humour, optimism & desire.
Working with abstraction is also an answer to my former self. I was a linear thinker for so many art making years. Then I gazed into the colour, the medium, the thinking, very close up. That’s what lead me to abstraction, seeing life enlarged, a sense of gazing not at, but into. I conjure up an ‘into’ gaze.
