(October 19, 2011 at 5:26 pm)Phaedra Wrote: That is certainly the case with me. The pieces that I am working on now are very painful for me to create. They require me to probe into aspects of my personality and being that I do not like. It takes a lot out of me, emotionally- I often cry when I do them. But at the same time I feel compelled to finish. They are my attempt to express my inner conflicts and explore what it means to be mentally ill in this society.
Wow that sounds like very intense subject matter and your approach seems just as involved and intense, I admire artists that are brave enough to really soul search and leave a big part of themselves on the canvas, it's not easy.
People who have never left a part of themselves inside a body of work, be it painting, writing/poetry or music or whatever, they find it very hard to understand the weight of the whole process, and they understand even less when artists don't want to sell some of their personal work, but it's like selling your soul sometimes, it really is.
"When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself." Peter O'Toole.
