ARTiculAction Art Review - Special Issuue Aug. 2016 | Page 101

Lillian Abel

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works that stand as records perceptual
experiece and that captures nonsharpness. So we would take this
occasion to ask you if in your opinion
personal experience is an absolutely
indispensable part of a creative
process... Do you think that a creative
process could be disconnected from
direct experience?

Personal experience is an absolutely
indispensable part of a creative process.
Everyone has different experiences of
the energy and visual they perceive.
Their experiences inform their
perception of the world. I work to share
my experiences with others in order to
provoke new observation for the viewer.
Referring to “What Remains Will Begin
Again”, I become overwhelmed in nature
when experiencing its vastness and size,
its struggle to survive, its gentle
existence and violent beginnings and
ends, its dangerous destruction, its
incredible beauty. What once existed will
always exist somewhere else, whether
animal, vegetable or mineral. The
mysterious and eternal forces of nature
are a fascination on many levels, from
kind, gentle growth to raging upheaval
to create a new thing.
The effective combination between
delicate nuances of tones sums up the
mixture of thoughts and emotions. How
much does your own psychological
make-up determine the nuances of
tones you decide to use in a piece and
in particular, how do you develop a
painting’s texture? Moreover, any comments on your choice of "palette" and
how it has changed over time?

My palette has changed in that I will mix
acrid colors for a particular painting and

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