Three on Watch
oil on muslin on panel
48x62
2005

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Carol Sams, Memphis,TN

Represented by: David Lusk Gallery contact person: Robert Hollingsworth

Maple Avenue Gallery

Born in 1952 in Knoxville, TN

Education
1973 BFA, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

It is difficult using words to discuss my work; they become clumsy when used as a substitute for the poetry of painting. However, by composing a statement about the paintings, I attempt to present a "measure of clarity" about how the pieces came to be and what motivates me to create them. I cannot present their meaning as complete and succinct. Viewing art is didactic. You must come to the work with expectation, taking a role in its revelation.
I have developed the activity of living aware of my existence, and my experience within the human condition, into a method of creating imagery. It interests me to dwell in thought about subjects such as scientific discovery and theory, mathematical theory, psychology, philosophy, language and communication. I understand more precisely if I conceptualize a visual to illustrate a thought or theory.
These images from thoughts... thoughts from images accumulated overtime, layer upon layer, becoming, denser, heavier, and compressed, forming a core... a nugget of knowledge. It is the fundamental me, and my source of "knowing". It is within this core of "knowing" the origin of my work resides. It is where I go to find meaning
To begin I make the first mark, like a handshake before a journey, the introduction is made. Painting is seductive pulling me into the process of discovery; marks become shapes, shapes become form. The eye tells the brain what it sees; the mind translates into imagery. Something real is created separate, alive and consummate. The paintings are not illustrations of events, actual places, or things abstracted. They are the place unto which I came. They did not preexist but were self-revealed at the journey's end.