Shattered

by Betsy Dollar

15" x 15.5" • lithograph/digital collage $$380

Louise Bourgeois implores, “Do not look for a rational treatise, life is made of experiences and emotions, the objects I have created make them tangible.” Each of my works is a personal, emotional portrait that captures a fragment of time and feeling, impressions and dreams. Each fragment offers me an opportunity for exploration and visual documentation, but the process entails risk. The risk of telling, of making the piece accurate to the experience, and of making it visual. My use of the elements of nature visually ground my visceral experiences and energies through an endless vocabulary of universal symbols and relationships. The landscape offers the map to my psychic journey as it manifests through the physical elements of the earth. As I visually document my psychic journey, it is my hope that the works that result from these processes not only bring clarity to me, but can offer a glimpse of recognition and understanding to others.