what is essential is invisible to the eye

 

It is necessary to be uncompromising.  You have to be, otherwise it’s crap you do.  I don’t want to. I don’t need to.  

Robert Frank 

walking away, swaying

 artistic experience folded into the textile like dough

Working on the reverse side of endless horizons, using shape as much as line, using space as a place to enter.  

whole body

 you are a sea of light

open your eyes.  see yourself.  

Nayyirah Waheed

softer is stronger

 

And so I just made it.  I thought “I just want to see what it looks like.”  And somebody asked me, “what does this mean?”  And you know— I can’t quite say.    Kiki Smith

in the middle of the world

 She carries us , swaddled to her breast, into a world that awaits our arrival.  

Walter Mosley wrote this about Toni Morrison 

grassy field

 my work

the archetypes

the neutral colours 

for the inner layer

 The majority of contemporary female artists in Canada have a very strong “sense of touch” in their work.  

Mayo Graham.  National Gallery of Canada 1975