Title
Core Drifts into Winter and Demeter Morns
Artist
Terrance DePietro
Medium
Drawing - Ink
Description
In the autumn of 1987, among other changes to life, my work assigned me to a new 'precinct' (of sorts) Great Meadows. And it was there, far from my studio and tools that I improvised a method to incorporate my creative impulses into my daily routine...Quite simply, I reached back into the skill-set of pen and ink; and no sooner than I accepted the 'impose of its limitations' a new series of images poured out, fixed in place and spurred my inquisitive mind, qua 'imagination'...
Of course at the time I did not imagine it would amount to a series; it was more an activity of doodling that one performs to fill up the mundane routine between tasks. But I was well acquainted and accepting of a mode of image making that spontaneously configures itself, and from the start I recognized what was developing. One after the other, day after day they simply developed! And one day the entire wall of my 'home-away-from-home' was covered...And more interestingly the depictions were remote and not familiar. Yet they 'seemed' to have characteristics that 'might' correspond to associations from myth, parable or otherwise occult historicisms.
The image in question: 'Core Drifts into Winter and Demeter Morns' is one such image. What is configured in representative fashion arrived most spontaneously and with no intention to render an image-in-mind. The beginning strokes of the pen, to the best of my recollection, were circular, curved, serpentine; whimsical, quick and sporadic. After which the formless patterns seemed to suggest their individual potentials. Potentials to form a face, a shadow or imaginary environment of diverse personalities. What is most important to remember here is that there was no 'image-in-mind'. What arrived and is configured was spontaneous and for lack of other word was : 'a priori' (i.e., 'in a way based on theoretical deduction rather than empirical observation') from cognitive directedness. If that is imagination, then it is but an aspect of imaginations process; and it is far removed from today's correspondence with 'fantasy' (a distinction that will have to be taken up at another time).
With those thoughts in mind let me now pen the correspondences that I see in this mythogenic image: Certainly the title itself - which needs to be noted as an after-thought which attached itself many years after the fact of the image - brings to mind dual aspects of the feminine nature. 'Mother and daughter' are principles that have associations within a masculine psyche but in all honesty can only be 'conceived in mind' and never fully understood from that perspective. What we know is that the bond and how it is configured in mythic terms is extreme to say the least!
What escapes our present day associations is that the seeming dichotomy is, in mythic terms, one unitary personage but from different perceptions. The characters are one and the same; are descriptive of the feminine principle and are a discussion of said principle. How the two associations relate, can be the material for any imagination to induce: its own myth. And the 'new' myth will generate its own correspondences which go beyond the personal and reflect the culture body of a given time...Might that have significance to an entire society or sub-culture? Might the suggestion of 'introspection' be purposive to a culture that is seeking a more sensible 'mode de vie'?
Yet there is much more present in this one image. For one, there are not less than four poignant characters and a distinctive collective group depicted...Closer examined one seems to be sleeping; one is characteristically older; another might be masculine, yet a forth is much younger, posturing a position of 'observing'. A bird like form appears below the dreamer and between the generic group at bottom and our 'observer' and possible male, there seems to be a spherical cluster of 'something' that is being regarded...
So what has our viewer arrived at in regard to this event? Have the question prompted further investigation of the perceived characters? An infinite number of questions could arrive...yet what matters is if the viewer is drawn to search or let us say: walk the path that imagination is setting before them... And find his own associations and titling!
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