Daily Archive for May 4th, 2010

Dr. D and I discussed the sketches I did the other day about life as a multiple. We also discussed huge differences  in sketches about my mother and the ones about my sister. The ones with my mother are chaotic and usually filled from one edge of the paper to the other. There appears to be a lot of random images and usually the drawing shows high anxiety as well as grief and fear. The sketches I do about my sister usually appear empty which speaks rather loudly in itself. The art pieces about her are usually dead center of the page and rather simple. The one I did the other day shows me holding onto her arm as we stand together tangled in her shackles. The image is proportionate and has recognizable humans which is in stark contrast to pieces concentrating on mother issues. The one directly next to it is typical of mother issues with it’s elongated figures, exaggerated  features exaggerated and closed eyes. Eyes are important in my pieces. They are usually quite large or closed with very little in between. It’s yet another extreme that shows up regularly in my work.

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