SPONTANEOUS EMISSIONS
A coolspace exhibition of the artwork of Pat Sewell
Pat shares, “My paintings largely happen: their underpinnings unannounced until their emergence, but sufficiently potent once at play in design that they leave me a sense that I am not in charge so much as along for the ride. Make an initial mark and presto, outside the window of awareness an image forms with its director in tow. Clearly these directors, like those of dreams, reflect my conscious and unconscious preoccupations, preferences and sensitizations and clearly there is linkage and influence from all my days and doodles gone before. I am preseeded and sensitized and it all fulminates as fertile vapor within, when mouth or mind is opened and uncensored. I just follow for the fun trusting the turn and stop signals encountered like a driver using road signs in an unfamiliar place. There is learning in the process though it goes unquantitated while having later its inevitable say. I stop when the signs compel a knowing. There will always be more paint and paper and new instruction even if initially tentative and vaporous.
I like to share my art in the same way I want my friends to like and know our dogs; in the same way we exclaim out loud without definable purpose at something that surprises or intrigues unexpectedly. It is a now thing; very basic and innate: a child showing a found rock to the first person available.
tags: art, artists, artspace, exhibition, pat sewell, shreveport
