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Alison Whitmore
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Artists Statement


Much of the work is based on potential conversations with the viewer. Journal writing, thoughts and confessions, along with political opinion, are poured out onto canvas or paper and subsequently either partially obscured or completely obliterated. This is a cathartic process, allowing the artist to focus her intentions more fully. In so doing she explores the relationship between herself, her ideology, creativity and her reality, and thence that of the viewer and the work, giving away fragments of self, though never allowing full access.

It is the artist’s intention that each piece should speak for itself, as she believes that the ultimate value or quality of an image is created as a result of the viewers’ own perception and relationship with the work. Any message or intent of the artist during the creative process is purely personal and understanding of this by the viewer is incidental of the creative process and is not essential to the viewer’s relationship with the work.