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Photo Credit: Jennie
Anne Benigas
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JUDY'S JOURNAL
October 2022
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My inner voice said, “Time to try something
different.”
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STOP, LOOK AND THINK before
you scroll down to read each section.
- Here are a few facts: Title: “If Joseph
Cornell…” size: 12” by 20” by 16,”
medium: collage, created in 2022. This information may or may
not verify or affect your first response. Did you notice more
after learning my title? Is there anything about what you see
and/or the title that clicks with your perceptions or emotions?
Now that you have some details, compare your thoughts and feelings
to your first response (image only).
- Here’s the story: I began by layering
art tissue over a painting pulled from storage that needed to
begin another life. The process moved along – filmy pieces
of tissue were torn and placed on the surface which had been
smeared with gel medium. Wrinkled and smooth areas emerged.
Large colorful areas appeared and collided. When this series
started in July 2019, I have not hesitated to continue tearing,
cutting, and placing the colorful bleeding and non-bleeding
tissues over each other and watching new colors appear. Sometimes,
I scratch the layers and let the old painting peek through.
This time, however, the usual “what’s next?”
pause grew longer and longer. Maybe it was the music (a Mahler
symphony) or my proximity to a window overlooking a sea of daylilies
and hydrangeas or my recent perusal of Joseph Cornell: Shadowplay
Eterniday, edited by Robert Lehrman. My inner voice said,
“Time to try something different.” I wanted to see
flowers dancing their way across this work-in-process. Draw
them? Paint them? I considered doing that, until my inner voice
chimed in with, “If Joseph Cornell could cut pictures from
magazines, why can’t you?” A friend had gifted my
husband with a subscription to The English Garden, which
are too beautiful to recycle. They are stored in the garage,
evidently waiting for me. The lesson is: Listen to your inner
voice.
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