Artist Statements for Genesis I and Apocalyptic Confessions are Live!

To celebrate re-photographing Genesis I with my Sony 42 mp camera today, I finally wrote the Artist Statement which you can see on it’s page, or I will post here.  Apocalyptic Confessions has a similar statement as they are companion pieces!

“Genesis I, along with its companion piece, Apocalyptic Confessions (shown side by side below), are the culmination of my painting and poetry series displayed at the Mileti Alumni Center at Bowling Green State University in 1984.  The original research was on the creative mind–is the creative process of a painter different or the same (similar) to that of a poet.  My research was inconclusive, but I found out that e. e. cummings was a cubist painter before he turned to poetry to express the cubist manifesto, and Joan Miro considered himself to be a poet on canvas!  Genesis I and Apocalyptic Confessions are both 6’ x 4’ paintings, which for me is huge!  They are painted in layer after layer to give them depth, and both include words and provide story or meaning.  When I first made Genesis I, I dyed the raw canvas blue green and said to my (now) husband, you are Adam.   Write your first word.  He wrote “Breathe”.  I spray painted around his body and made an image of a man on the top of the canvas.  He did the same for me at the bottom.  I chose the word, “Grow.”  Apocalyptic Confessions was painted to tell the story of my tumultuous childhood, and Genesis I was painted with an eye to the future, and fresh beginnings.”

“Apocalyptic Confessions, along with its companion piece, Genesis I (shown side by side below), are the culmination of my painting and poetry series displayed at the Mileti Alumni Center at Bowling Green State University in 1984.  The original research was on the creative mind–is the creative process of a painter different or the same (similar) to that of a poet.  My research was inconclusive, but I found out that e. e. cummings was a cubist painter before he turned to poetry to express the cubist manifesto, and Joan Miro considered himself to be a poet on canvas!  Genesis I and Apocalyptic Confessions are both 6’ x 4’ paintings, which for me is huge!  They are painted in layer after layer to give them depth, and both include words and provide story or meaning.  When I first made Apocalyptic Confessions, I dyed the raw canvas red, and began to release all of the feelings I had from having grown up with a violent alcoholic father, and all that it entailed.  Apocalyptic Confessions was catharsis in its purest form, and felt like the end of an era for me.  It was painted to tell the story of my tumultuous childhood, and Genesis I was painted with an eye to the future, and fresh beginnings.”