I am grateful to inspiration (the muse/my muse) for my progress so far. My drawings and ideas are changing/growing and running well ahead of the speed at which I can produce work, but that’s all to the good I’m sure. This drawing shows the image of an American woman poet who I read an article about in a national newspaper at the start of the year. Finally I have gotten around to imaging her beautiful face but I need to do more with this image. I can’t draw a poetess and not incorporate words somewhere in the image. The idea of visual symbolism also however, needs again to come to the fore now. I have it in mind to incorporate (in the area of the aura of her person) a pattern of sorts. Inspired in this instance by characters found in cave paintings. As I progress I’m searching out ways to effectively incorporate animals and beings found in other ancient art forms and myth. Surely the language of the (creative) spirit is indeed ancient/prehistoric and mythical. Surely the imagery of the landscape of the subconscious overlaps that of the imagination and surely universal imagery roams across and recognises no borders. I’ve looked at the symbolic imagery of the history of Western art and found not only secular references but more often than not Christian ones. These alone, are alienating to as many contemporary people as they are inclusive of them. Pre-Christian imagery, cave paintings, in comparison are universal and still haunt most people’s imaginations. I therefore have open to me a whole raft of visual references, a whole world of spiritual imagery and I mean to plunder it, better to demonstrate the light and dark of the underworld of the buried impressions which float in the ether around each and every one of us.
