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The universe is something like a spider or spit

August 26, 2011

Sometimes I feel as though we’re all permanently discontent and subsisting just to get by. Art is my consolation prize. Paint, my lover. The brush, a fringe on a dress that falls to the floor. “The universe is something like a spider or spit.” ~ Georges Bataille   Christopher Wool’s site.

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The World Calls

August 9, 2011

100 Words Connecting the dots ~ glasses painted; Cadmium Red Dark – orange dots! No, not serious painting at all frankly, but I’m working on inspiring myself to paint. The world calls. The painting calls me back. The clock ticks. The painting calls me back. Bombs drop. The painting calls me back. Death around me. [...]

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Blogging is my lifeline

August 6, 2011

Damn it’s hard to start painting when I tell myself that I won’t be blogging about my Journey into Intimacy Series anymore. It feels like a void is opening up and I’ll just keep falling. It seems as though this blog is like a lifeline to the world for me. Without it I feel lost [...]

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Portfolio: Journey Into Intimacy

August 5, 2011

2011 Journey Into Intimacy 2010 Journey Into Intimacy 2009 Journey Into Intimacy Artist Statement I am interested in exploring contradictions abstractly by juxtaposing opposites to express multiple truths. Each painting and print is an exploration of intimacy, vulnerability, raw emotion and healing in line with the Divine Feminine. The watery, responsive nature and quick drying [...]

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Raw in the Sea of Love

August 4, 2011

As I focus on the painting I block all else out although the trees shimmer and beckon inviting my poetical mind to play. I rest my head, my brain heavy, calling upon my stillness. Eyes closed, I prepare to emote, to be vulnerable, sexual and raw in my mark making. To sing, to live, to [...]

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AbEx

August 3, 2011
Finding Heaven. Acrylic & pastel on masonite, 48 x 48 inches. © 2011 by Kathy Crabbe

“I have never thought that abstract painting was non objective. Abstract Expressionism is about attitude, change, and ideas. Non objective paintings are simply decorative. Without concepts, paintings become another medium that is described by the materials used, like ceramics or fiber art.” ~ Richard Jackson, Art Forum Magazine, Summer 2011 I want to fall in [...]

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