On Tuesday 20 Nov 2007 12:55 AM MarshaV writes greetings: Greetings, Maybe I am an exhibitionist, or just plain luney, but painting is an experience different than anything else in my life. Printmaking was the same and it's taken a long time to get back to really working from the inside out. I don't know if trying to talk about it will ever make any sense, but I seem to be compelled to try to talk about it to dig deeper. If you could see the first print I made after my husband died maybe you'd understand. It was so dark and scary that it really frightened me. I think it is safe to say it was of a woman splintered and out of her mind. I don't want to produce such darkness. There's too much negativity already. I just didn't want to go there. In 1998 I spent the summer in Italy with a friend and a group of primarily art students. I wasn't sure I'd like the art. I thought it was all that religious stuff. But WOW!!! It swept me away. I decided the only thing to do was to just paint. You can't think painting, at least I can't. It has to be quite the opposite. I have to let go. Geez, words suck!!! The painting is both the trip and the safety net. But this MD Discuss forum is also been very special to me. It's given me a way to restructure the world in a way that makes sense during the daylight hours. It's a beautiful map! And you are all beautiful. In a strange way you are more my family than my family. You are my sangha. So I thank you all for your giving. Marsha p.s. I've got another painting started. It's much different that the last one, but also the same. Thanks, Marsha! Thanks all!
Joe > > > Greetings, > > Maybe I am an exhibitionist, or just plain luney, but painting is an > experience different than anything else in my life. Printmaking was > the same and it's taken a long time to get back to really working > from the inside out. I don't know if trying to talk about it will > ever make any sense, but I seem to be compelled to try to talk about > it to dig deeper. > > If you could see the first print I made after my husband died maybe > you'd understand. It was so dark and scary that it really frightened > me. I think it is safe to say it was of a woman splintered and out > of her mind. I don't want to produce such darkness. There's too > much negativity already. I just didn't want to go there. > > In 1998 I spent the summer in Italy with a friend and a group of > primarily art students. I wasn't sure I'd like the art. I thought > it was all that religious stuff. But WOW!!! It swept me away. I > decided the only thing to do was to just paint. > > You can't think painting, at least I can't. It has to be quite the > opposite. I have to let go. Geez, words suck!!! The painting is > both the trip and the safety net. But this MD Discuss forum is also > been very special to me. It's given me a way to restructure the > world in a way that makes sense during the daylight hours. It's a > beautiful map! And you are all beautiful. In a strange way you are > more my family than my family. You are my sangha. > > So I thank you all for your giving. > > Marsha > > p.s. I've got another painting started. It's much different that > the last one, but also the same. > > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
