Artist Statement
Story of a Wandering Mind
Ellen Liguori is an award-winning artist using multiple media including, but not limited to graphite, charcoal, pastel, photography, ink, oil, watercolour, acrylic, vintage papers, bark, music sheets, ephemera. She describes her work as interplay and dichotomy. She is self-taught. She, first and foremost, draws.
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Wandering Thoughts
Art, an invisible calling from the beginning. Always.
✦ I see ✦
sunlit play on lashes,
flight of hair in wind,
crumpled beauty in faded flowers,
sensuous landscape in draping velvet.
expressions, ageless, of infant wonder and elder wisdom,
depth and beauty in the orbs of an animal.
calm peace in fog,
the angry flight of harried breezes as they toss about that too weightless to stand its ground.
these seduced,
and...
✦
captured my eyes.
✦
distracting,
addicting,
visual temptations,
nectar to a bee,
before I even knew I was...
An artist
Colour,
architecture of movement,
stillness,
human and creature expression.
all stained my brain and urged me to
✦
Recreate.
Their.
Echoes.
✦
I walked, sometimes crawled and grasped with dusty rainbow fingers,
driven by and exalted in
in the winding path of unsteady self education,
drawing,
drawing,
drawing.
In reflection. I see a body of work driven by,
the interplay.
Between,
subject to subject, bound by unseeable threads,
voyeur to subject,
subject to an inner world,
movement and stillness,
pattern and chaos,
light and shadow.
The tilt of a head, the tendon-y force of a hand locked in purpose.
✦ Draw Us ✦
I have not been able to settle. Flailing happily in opposing directions like a child
prancing
In a puddle, giddy with each new array of ripples and flying droplets, I have chosen, to be
this artist,
To cherish
this unsettled
journey.
Wielding a plethora of mediums and marks as each work urges me toward what it wills to be.
I eventually learned acceptance of the glorious defeat in an internal struggle to
FOCUS,
decide,
CHOOSE A PATH.
Can not, will not, reign in, capitulate.
Rebel
Celebrate,
Draw, draw, draw,
the art of this wandering mind.
I pray that
each work's chosen voice
brings to its' viewer,
✦
the joy I was gifted as
its servant and maker.
✦
~By Ellen Liguori