Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Spirit Dance

© Carol J. Stevens        22 X 22"        mixed water-media

My Mother would clean her house painting brushes by scrubbing them on the basement wall and announcing "Well, at least the wall is clean!"  I watched, fascinated as the multicolored chaos grew.  Now I too scrub and drip paint 
onto my works in progress and onto scraps of paper for collage thus 
creating that same chaos.

When the drips and scrapes start speaking to me, I listen and scrub until their meaning becomes clear, rather like reading tea leaves.  My Mother lives and dances in me! 

Ohio Watercolor Society  
“Watercolor Ohio 2008” 
Prizm Award 

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