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Title
Cupid in Search of Psyche
Artist
Terrance DePietro
Medium
Painting - Oil
Description
If the intentionality to merely 'doodle' was my premise, a pencil or ballpoint would have sufficed; or if it was a needing to vent pent-up emotion, stress or worse anger, then an activity, one involving 'slashing' - tearing or hammering - would be implicated and expected. Yet that was not the case in the mid-1980s; when I found myself 'pouring' paint onto a variety of substrates - in this case 60"x40", archival board.
More than trying to 'express' something, as the title suggests, I was searching a 'something'. It was pouring but it was also gestural and at the same time intimate; and all the time, intuiting that there was a [deeper] 'purpose' involved - but I had no word or concept for what such passionate purpose might be...One day I awoke, with a thought, as a question: Might it be a 'calligraphy', a language of sorts? And I took up a pen, and started a journal, recording and refining my hypothesis only to realize I was in need of some assistance, guidance, to come to terms with all the implications that developed from my questions.
But even if I realized the necessity, where to find someone who was knowledgeable, a Renaissance man so to speak, in painting, with understanding in a variety of subjects, et al?...So I continued with what I could do and trusted (a faith) that 'what I needed would arrive'. And I painted, and I drew and I questioned; and I recorded to journal and I searched in all other sources - and after a seemingly long continuation, what was needing arrived; more, much more, than any expectation might have envisioned...
What this image and the series surrounding it made me aware of was that in fact there was a language [of image] and that unlike linguistics which express in objects (word), image expresses in impressions, feelings - translatable as questions not answers; subjectivity to the comprehension of an individual, yet shared in way of 'disposition' and 'attitude'.
Through the years I have experienced, that viewers often have no words to express why, or of what, they are attracted to, in the imagery I present or in the imagery of others whose work really touches them. They always lead their response with: 'it feels' or 'it makes me feel',or 'I sense', etc...Wordless impressions; unceasing implications; imaginal magical mystery...
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