Yes, paintings have changed my life, painting them and looking at paintings.
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Did you ever have a dream that you knew was a dream, yet lives with you in your waking hours as if it wasn’t a dream at at all ? It was such a short, simple dream, powerful and timeless, and lives in my body, as memory, retrievable and real.
I was this white, luminous, long legged spider, suspended from my own silken thread, in the midst of vast dark space, completely at home, free from fear.
This dream inspired a series of images that I produced for a solo exhibit at the Infusion Gallery in downtown Los Angeles, in Sept. of 2006 titled “Backbone.”
I replaced the spider with a woman and the silken thread with a rope, and began to explore my comfort zone with this image. This work was all dry media and I am currently reworking the theme in oil on canvas. This time I am including the original dream image of the spider, in this new series of paintings.
I’m so excited about your new work, can’t wait until you post it here!
Caitriona
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