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Mining The Unconscious

Kathleen McCloud

Monotype, ink transfer, collage, pigment on Stonehenge paper

22"x26"x0.50"
2 lbs

Price


$1400.00
Mining The Unconscious
Mining The Unconscious
Mining The Unconscious Small Room
This piece is based on Carl Jung’s Red Book and its publication several years ago. I like the free association that takes place in hand printing processes – lots of unconscious marking and revelatory symbols show up which unleash many other images. One thing leads to another.
Kathleen McCloud

Kathleen McCloud. Santa Fe, NM

Artist Statement

I use a variety of media to explore the ways we humans record the experience of being alive. I like paper because of the way it holds memory, from printed words to stains and creases. Each work on paper is unique. Ink, paint, graphite, ephemera, and text, converge in what appear as urgent records of discovery, inviting the mind to wonder, searching the fringe of consciousness for a narrative thread.

Best advice you’ve been given • ‘’Be yourself, everyone else is taken.” (paraphrased from Oscar Wilde)

Goals/Aspirations • To get out of my own way so what comes through is an honest record of the moment.

Favorite artist • I fell in love with Francis Bacon's drawings at the Gate Theater in Dublin- like them more than his paintings. He and Giacometti are now my two favorites for drawing...into drawing right now I guess. It always changes.

What are you reading • Looking for a new book.....

Hope to learn how to • Speak Spanish

You spend a lot of time thinking about • What’s next - aka, the emerging future

Favorite musical artist • I listen to a lot of Brazilian and French music in the studio - I like café music that is melodic and meaningless (I don’t speak Portuguese or French)

What do you do when not creating art • Thinking about making art

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