Ink. Writing. Letters.

27/10/2014

Written language is such a powerful tool for me. There are times writing can be such a tug of war between the heart and mind. The mind wants one thing, the heart another. One way I've found to help bring clarity is through free style writing.

Letting words creativity flow unstructured and intuitively allows instinct to appear on paper. From fragments to long-winded essays, good will come out of these love letters. Surely some of it makes sense and some are like a confusing dream to piece together.

The best part though is coming back later and rereading a particular writing and it clicks! The mind and heart found balance and clarity presents itself.

I keep a colorful spiral notebook for this purpose. It's kept nearby to record whims of fleeting thoughts, moments, and artistic ideas.

Periodically, I visit this collection to incorporate in a new piece of art or refine unfinished works.

Have a beautiful day. Make Time to Write.

~Trust your Heart. Your Mind will...Soon...follow.~ ALG

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Amanda L. Gamble is passionate about telling stories through bold, competing colors in her paintings, color photography and creating the opposite through her black and white images.

Born hearing impaired, she was placed into an aggressive speech and language program at 3 years old to learn skills she missed in order to catch up and function in the hearing world.

Because hearing was secondary, she learned to compensate through sight. Relying on listening to visual cues, subtleties are more noticeable to her in everyday life.

Seen in some of her photography, Amanda captures objects she perceives are ordinarily missed or overlooked. Certain moments are indicative of what has been left astray and perhaps forgotten about among its environment.

Wanting to know the true story hits curiosity right in the heart, evoking the imagination to run wild. What are your thoughts? What do you see? What stirs you? Contemplating the object's position is interesting and makes for good conversation.

Amanda's paintings are statement pieces. Some of them reflect coincidentally earth from afar. The organic methods she imposes creates a flow that will not happen twice. What results is purely chance because she is truly in the moment with brush in hand and paint on canvas.

Her linear works are more structured, however, they too are created with the same technique as the organic pieces.

In translating sight, feelings and sound to material form, Amanda ultimately brings you fresh, spontaneous, authentic, and ever-expanding art forms.

Ink. Writing. Letters.

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