Oh, yes... COVID... (sigh)

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I'll readily admit that, despite my comfortable relationship with silence and solitude, feeling STUCK at home is not the same thing as CHOOSING to stay at home. So, I certainly struggled with the anxiety created by the COVID lockdown and its after effects, especially as someone who doesn't stress about much, which probably only augmented my overall experience.

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But, this anxiety did something interesting and important for my work as well, forcing a return to my roots, of Automatic Drawing, while inadvertently enabling the rediscovery of my creative voice.

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Still, one of the trickiest aspects of Automatism is actually providing titles for the work, which first requires evaluation; deciphering whether an image is pregnant with meaning, or, if it purely means what it says on the surface.

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In fact, even the most obvious details are often only intimations of meaning (narratives within a broader narrative) that can easily be misunderstood if isolated from other details. After all, just like the event of life, every variable involved plays an important role in presenting the subject or idea, collectively providing clues that help to tell a complete story.