Open Conversations

Author & Artist: Lindi Cranston

The following works are an exploration, a returning to self.  The necessity of breaking from constructs and cages and systems that move one farther from SELF, is an arduous journey. So the return is sweet and requires gentle permission. The permission to express what IS becomes the slow growing freedom to connect the self to the rest of what IS. 

Many of these works are born out of a practice that envelopes play, flow, and a setting aside of the consciousness and expectation. Many can stand as they are or can also be considered “unfinished”. They are explorations of mark making with lingering possibility for more development. I have opened conversations with the works and they tell me what they want. Some want to be left, some want to be revisited, some have a story to finish. I seek to let them tell their stories from a center that is me…and the knowing of what connects me to all things. 

I remain unattached to a plan for each work as my practice is built on a new way of life. One which does not seek a specific end, but finds liberation in allowing what is to be. 

While most of what is here is abstract, I seek to use the freedom gleaned from this abstract practice to inform my representational work. I believe that my growth as a figurative painter depends on this foundational play…the spark of authentic creative energy flows through me from all things.