Comments on: An Artist and Her Process: No Words Necessary

By: diannejacob

diannejacob — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:26:03 +0000

I don’t think I could do it!

By: Mags

Mags — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:23:21 +0000

Rational brain wants to name while abstract brain wants to show? I’ve heard theories about creative vs rational brain halves and I’m quite convinced.
I was educated in literature so naming/putting things into words seems very natural to me and comes easily. But I’ve learned that in order to deeply experience something, I need to forget words. Man, it’s difficult:)

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:11:52 +0000

Thanks, Dianne. My blog is a place for me to have fun but I also think that my pictures heighten the impact and emotion of my story, or at least I hope so! I also think that cutting up the written post with images makes reading on a computer screen a bit easier on the eyes.

By: diannejacob

diannejacob — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:47:44 +0000

Lovely, Jamie. On your blog you have not only words but images to help the reader along.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:16:53 +0000

My writing has so evolved over the past 2 years and has become the focus of my food blog, the food the inspiration. It is very important for me to connect with the reader emotionally and I try and create a mood, an atmosphere, a desire in each reader. My stories are my art, the words are my tools just like paint is for someone else. I know I find myself a little like Kimetha, working on one piece for long periods, adding, layering, erasing, moving things around on the page, working until I have found what I have been looking for. Sometimes I feel as if I am that sculptor not in front of a blank block of marble working to create something from nothing, but rather there is a statue hidden in that marble and I have to chip away at the excess and free the sculpture. Having only words with which to create an emotion and a desire in someone else is tricky and difficult, but it is a challenge I love and it fascinates me.

By: CindyW

CindyW — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:07:14 +0000

This is really a beautiful post, Dianne. I read it last night and have been thinking about it ever since. Like you, I would immediately reach for words to describe my experience. It’s not just that my strength of description comes from text, but somehow the act of writing enhances my experience. I “see” things in much more detail when writing of them (or even thinking about writing of them), plus I will remember them for a much longer time.

Also, it is very interesting that she must say goodbye to her art pieces at the end. I hadn’t ever really considered that aspect of non-digital art. That’s one thing that writers don’t really go through — we might be turning our creations over to the public, but we can easily access (and “own”) them thanks to duplication and digital records of our words.

By: parisbreakfasts

parisbreakfasts — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:19:06 +0000

words are awfully important to me in my artwork, especially coming from someone else. But it’s usually an adjective rather than a metaphor…maybe refering to balance, contrast, space, visual terms. On the other hand I love verbal cliche expressions because they’re so full of imagery…

By: Nate @ House of Annie

Nate @ House of Annie — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:22:17 +0000

I think a good food writer goes beyond just describing the food to causing the reader to want to eat said food.

Something to chew on (mentally).

By: Stephanie - Wasabimon

Stephanie - Wasabimon — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:55:48 +0000

I married an artist, and we both see our work (and our lives) in such different ways that I often wonder how we ended up married.

By: Kimetha

Kimetha — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:04:19 +0000

Sometimes I do reflect on images sketched in words, such as are found in compressed forms of poetry (haiku, etc.) These come and go as sources of inspiration, but less so for these last paintings.
I liked what you said in the gallery that day, and wrote down what I remembered.