Notes from Noelle
Curiosities from my Residency
6 months at the Hive, Spokane Public Library
As a writer, I am pulled between truth and illusion. To speak from the stillness we find all around, moments of solitude is what grounds us. As a painter I am pushed between gesture and space, separate yet parallel ways to communicate.
In my head, the typewriter keys are still punching and piercing through the page that I haven't even written yet. I carry that through my painting process by the gestural mark-making. Sometimes the writing manifests itself through the body rather than the mind which makes me interested in pushing/questioning the structure of language, how we think and speak it too.
I find that my writing incorporated in my paintings or drawings to really be an irritation of seeking a fluent, cohesive, articulated response. I love the challenge of abstraction, and within all that, my body is often holding more language than my mind and the more irrational and fluid the words present themselves, in their natural state, eventually they make sense. It's really about the detachment of the mind we hold on to so tight in hopes there are answers and validity in all that we can see or recognize.
To let go is to see more.
