ALICE AGATSTON

Drawing is the  bedrock blueprint for visual art and imagination. Classical visual training from life is organic, based on the human form's sculptural, gestural, and psychological depths.  It produces work that is certified by human perception and viscerally bound to human experience. Drawing translates the seen and felt into two dimensions. Its process grows the roots of feelings into spatial relationships bringing the mind to engage with two and three dimensional images, and check its composite sense for its fidelity to feeling.

 

Distilling feeling from experience; mining observations guided by instinct is a journey to discover an inner truth. I am gratefully tethered to this enduring challenge; processing perceptions until feeling is satisfied and formed in two or three dimensions with media that grants the feeling a life of its own. 

 

 

RESPECT THE JOURNEY: 

 

Respect the journey to final expression with patience for all experiments. Initial stage exploration in drawing can be carried throughout development of painting and sculpture to rethink and check a bang reaction for its pulse in the imagery, and confirm its persistence as inescapable truth. Allow core sticky idea to journey through accidental discoveries, of form, color and materials, to dictate choices to give image its own life.
 

 

OBSERVE EXPRESSIVE SAFETY STANDARDS:

 

1. EXPERIMENT WITH MATERIALS AND PROCESS: Follow process and suitable materials to bring image to realization.

2. REMAIN OPEN TO CORE FEELING FINDINGS. SHUT OUT NEGATIVITY ORIGINATING IN OR OUTSIDE WORKING BRAIN: As a human in possession of limitations of personality and capabilities that there is no need to impose others.

 

WARNING:

 

Non gut driven sources for images are contaminants.

 

Retreat from searching and listening betrays soul and satisfaction to rudderless squandering of time and resources.

 

 

CREATIVE CONTRACT:

Accept gut truth and its choices no matter their palatability or improbability.

Accept in life and people inherent change, flux, fragility, requiring respect, listening along  the journey.

To sing out with a purpose so the work can't help but have one specimen of humanity inside.

 

 

Alice Agatston

September 2019