Intuitive Ewe




February Ewe 1, 2011. Ink on a 1921 encyclopedia page.
(Click on image to see words and details.)

 Artist blog entry from Menahga Arts Guild member, T. Besonen.
http://tbesonen.blogspot.com/

Recently, I have been working more intuitively with images, words,
and materials to create narratives that seem to delve into the
subconscious. Creating these personal metaphors is a therapeutic
process of soothing my own anxieties, and discovering how we are
all connected to each other, as well as connected to nature and to
the past.

Also, I have been researching the Art Nouveau movement of the
early 1900s in art and design history. I am fascinated with how this
time period was such an important transition into the modern art era,
and I see parallels between the industrialization of the early 1900s
and the digitalization of today.

Drawing on the surface of 1920s encyclopedia pages with black
ink, I am enjoying the process of responding to the surface texture
and words as sheep images and natural, art-nouveau-inspired
motifs overlap.

I grew up on a sheep farm in North-Central Minnesota. At age
eleven, I became awe-inspired by nursing half-frozen lambs back
to life, and experienced mothering instincts for the first time.
Experiences with mothering my own two daughters today, the
oldest nearly eleven, may be why sheep images are surfacing in
my work recently.



February Ewe 2, 2011. Ink on a 1921 encyclopedia page.
(Click on image to see words and details.)