Misdirected Anger

Misdirected Anger, a photo by Nona's Art on Flickr.

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graphite on cream colored drawing paper 7"x10"
2011
Utilizing catharsis and sublimation of emotion, the limitations of pictorial expression are contrasted by the emphatically visceral expressiveness of line and gesture in “Misdirected Anger”. Interlacing elements of tension/release, realization/failure, frivolity/purpose, substantiality/superficiality, abstract/concrete as well as notions of restraint, rationalization, avoidance, intent and artistic pretense compose a mesh of calculated degradation. Abstraction of the human form into boisterous distorted primitive “silhouettes” and bundles of frenetic lines insinuates rationalized catharsis as a hindering superficiality while dramatizing the disparity between “relief/release” and “resolution”.

Excruciating Boredom

Excruciating Boredom, a drawing by Nona's Art on Flickr.

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graphite on cream colored drawing paper 7"x10"
July 2011
A result of restless boredom, this piece (which is perhaps more 'doodle' than 'drawing') explores line, pattern, flow, movement, activity, arresting thought, mental liberty and exquisite compulsivity.

Decoration and Delicacy

Decoration and Delicacy, a drawing by Nona's Art on Flickr.

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Decoration and Delicacy

pen and ink and graphite on cream colored drawing paper 7"x10"

June 2011

This drawing explores my feelings toward writing explanations about my art. It’s about where honesty, interpretation, meaning, relevance, creative license, subconscious ramblings and artistic bull shit intersect and commingle and where the artist resides in this process within the context of her environment (both internal and external). Could this be about something else? Yes and no. I could describe it differently...

The figure’s facial features are removed. They are floating in the air to the right, still trying to give expression. A thought trails them (the broken line). This isn’t bothering the figure because her attention is projecting forward to an object and a construct. The upper limbs have morphed into graphical depictions of ineffective utility. Her posterior is the most solidly realized form within the drawing for compositional (and other) reasons. Her lower legs and feet deteriorate into a modernist aesthetic. It is not apparent if the figure is moving away from the scribbles in the lower right corner or if the scribbles are moving toward her (think “The Langoliers”). The scribbles could represent a fragmented history. The large bird to the left (composed of a tangled line of ink) depicts delicacy and decoration . The bird’s alimentary canal (depicted in graphite) is a snarky remark (or a snarkymark, ha!) on the substantiality of projecting attributes of delicacy and decoration. The bird has no legs, only wilted tail feathers to counterpoint the idealizations of the figure’s ‘figure’ and is looking down with unassuming curiosity at the line coming towards it. Floating above the bird’s head (or where it should be) are the bird’s facial features. This is quite tragic for the bird because it reminds it of how often bird facial features (and the head supporting these structures) are removed in the process of becoming comestibles. Coming out of the figure’s knee is a deformity (with its facial features still in place) looking and smiling at the larger bird. A smaller bird (mid right) composed of circles and shading is hunkering somewhere between irreverence and capricious whimsy. These elements create a conceptual tension that clashes against the compositional balance. With costumed force and beguiling aggression the figure (indignantly indignant) obsequiously compels while simultaneously denying and conceding all condescension.

It’s about what it is and what it isn’t. It’s in the drawing and not the explanation anyways.

Freedom and Flight

Freedom and Flight, a drawing by Nona's Art on Flickr.

Freedom and Flight
graphite on cream colored drawing paper 7"x10"
June 2011
Fundamentally, this drawing is about perceptions/conceptions (or misperceptions/misconceptions) and the paradoxical and illusory nature of freedom.

The title, more specifically, refers to the dichotomy of achieving freedom through escape while being imprisoned to perpetual flight. Using the visual metaphor of a bird in flight representing freedom, the bird’s decent (or the metaphor's "falling") depicts the futility or irrelevance of pursuing false or misguided conceptions of freedom.

Other concepts explored include: death as freedom/life is never free from death and freedom to be one's self/never being free from one's self.

Fleece and Plumage

Fleece and Plumage, a drawing by NonaArt on Flickr.

Fleece and Plumage

graphite on cream colored drawing paper 7" x 10"

May 2011


This drawing is about coverings, guise, superficiality, veneer and misrepresentation.  Ha ha, just kidding! It's just some visual ramblings with bird motifs popping up again and a deformed sheep!

Not not not not not going

Not not not not not going, a drawing by Nona's Art on Flickr.

Not not not not not going
graphite on cream colored drawing paper 7" x 10"
May 2011


This drawing addresses issues of indecisiveness, internal contradiction and persuasive factors.  A scatteredness (also overflow) of being is felt through the interaction between and incongruity of "shadowy shapes" and circumscribing lines.

All do All want

untitled, a drawing by Nona's Art on Flickr.

All do All want
graphite on cream colored drawing paper 7"x10"
April 2011

This drawing explores perceptions of self as well as attraction/repulsion, desire/fear, and self worth/self deprecation.  There is only one character in this composition but multiple elements of personality are present.