N e w aW o r k s - The Long Road Home
For
the past few years, my hands and intentions have been bent on these cascading
forms. My brain says "paint something political – get back to
that social space where your interest in painting really bloomed."
But I keep returning to these forms, bent on drawing out the richness
and subtleties between the shades. Once I stepped back from the space
of creation, I realized that the hand and heart had drawn me directly
back to the place my brain wished for—the spaces between and around
us.
These paintings emerged from a large collection of sketches all searching
for a glimpse of something beautiful and transcendent in our muddied social
space. Going through the evolution of these forms from cautious sketches
to bold paintings has reminded me of the power within – to advocate,
activate, and transform for the world I want to live in. Political means
knowing when and where to take a stand, how to relate what I care about
to what you care about to what we all are invested in, grounding it spiritually
and freeing it cognitively.
I’ve had to release myself to the pull of these shifting forms and
allow their power to take me forward. My hope is that they touch your
questioning mind, beckon you to stay a little longer, and take your questions
a little farther down your own path of discovery.
To the road, the horizon, and all the good stuff in between.
Gwyneth Tripp, July 2007
