Laura Talking about Georgia

“it is on the whole probable that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.” Carl Jung
I track the drifting of my own ideas, looking for a way to catch the mind off guard. The act of painting offers a solution to getting at what lies beneath the surface of everyday experience without consulting the intellect first. As such, my work emerges from a sensory response to what is being thought about or looked at.
Recently I have begun to make paintings that are abstract in form but representational in subject because they happen whilst listening to people I have recorded talking about personal experiences. I am interested in discovering a visual and visceral language equivalent to the emotional content revealed by individuals when recounting their histories. This painting was made whilst a close friend shared her painful memories about losing her best friend to suicide. Her best friend was my sister.