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“Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn’t have any beginning or any end. He didn’t mean it as a compliment, but it was.”

— Jackson Pollock

All art is created within a certain context. Artists, like their art, are shaped by the era in which they are working. They are influenced by what is happening in society, politics, and the current streams of intellectual thought - intermingled with everyday pop culture and their own daily lives. All of these factors leave impressions on the artist's mind, knowingly or not, and in turn determine the form and direction of the artwork. Nothing exists in a vacuum, and that includes art!

Failures of design, application of materials, or technique should be followed into the future when lightness, freedom, absence of desire, and good humor are naturally demonstrated.

Sometimes these moods are enough to carry a work on their own.

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Catch artists who display these early, and stay a fan: as skills and tools to render their natural inclinations accumulate, you better believe the damage they will be capable of doing is gonna balloon.

Inspiration is found easily and each piece of work is derived from a very simple thought which grows and spirals through out the painting process. Color reflects ones thought process, feeling and mood, this she portrays by capturing the beauty of an idea with a simple tone and stroke.

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