Have you ever been lost in a painting that tells a story without words? Have you ever wanted to make paintings that people can get lost in, letting them come to their own decisions about what the piece is saying to them? Have you ever wondered how to evoke a feeling through the emotional use of color and line? If so, then join us as we journal into the wonderful world of visual poetry.
In this workshop we’ll explore the language of vision, investigating our own symbolic meaning and how this meaning translates to the viewer. We’ll delve into the topography of our psyches, and make a series of journal paintings that tell a story without words. We will become visual poets.
We’ll start by accessing the deep resources of our imagination through word/image/memory exercises to loosen up our flow. Based on a selection of photographic images, we will dive deeply into our personal symbology, and we’ll transpose them into fragmented prose and random imagery. Using our journals, and larger “flow sheets” our discoveries will be laid down indiscriminately, becoming the foundation of, or the emotional touchstone for, our paintings. We’ll consider how line, color, composition and balance creates mood and atmosphere, all the while staying rooted in our own visions.
In the safe harbor of our journals we’ll create a series of stories, coming from a single thread, a moment in time, an encapsulation of past and present emotion and symbolic beauty.