CRAFTED IN CALM WATER
WATERCOLOR & WATERCOLOR COLLAGE BY H.TORGERSON
Nook & Helm
Watercolor or Collage…
I usually find myself outside of most boxes. So here I am wondering if I have to chose a box.
Watercolor or collage. Can I choose both? Should i worry if it’s allowed?
What began as experimenting on my piece, Deep Water, led to the art of creating textures and backgrounds to tear and layer. Recreating, wanting to build something I could touch and feel. Examining each torn edge and making a whole. Adding layers of pigment till the texture felt right…
Whichever box I choose, I remain a wife, a mother, a daughter, a sister, a friend. And in my Nook, I am a human, seeing a moment and wanting to write it down in paint. Taking the pieces and making something more, is an art we are all practiced in.
“Art is the response of the living
to life.”- Theodore Czebotar,
as quoted in Hidden Treasure
by Patricia Hamilton
My Great-Uncle, Theodore Czebotar: American Modernist