ARTIST'S STATEMENT: Environmental Portrait Series
In the early 1970's like many
people, I became interested in a series of books by Carlos Castenada
called " The
Teachings of Don Juan". In the book, Castenada discusses
the concept of "The Power Spot", a place either real
or imaginary that a person goes to, to center themselves or recharge
their spiritual energy.
At the same time, I was studying
hypnosis. This consisted of reading about the work of Milton
Ericson, master hypno-therapist, and taking a series of workshops
on Neural Linguistic Programming (NLP). I put these incongruous
elements together and began "The Environmental Portrait
Series"
"The Environmental Portrait
Series" used a series of word association tests to determine
if a person integrated the world primarily using visual, auditory
or kinesthetic hooks. Once determined, this information was used
to create a visualization experience similar to hypnosis. The
visualization took the person to their "power spot"
and a painting was designed using the "power spot"
as a visual background, the individual being surrounded by their
personal symbols.
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