Rothenberg, Susan

I felt a tremendous affinity with Van Goghs deep feeling for the things he painted and how he exaggerated the colours of sky, chairs, faces, to bring them to almost more than life.

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent that you really can’t articulate.

The anxiety and sometimes distorted way of seeing things I would guess comes from my wanting to impose my energy on the place. We live a fairly isolated life here.. I look for the weird to liven things up. Sometimes I probably make it more weird than it is.

Some of the pictures are truly mysterious to me.. which is why I so often say publicly that I don’t know or don’t care what they’re really about. And yet I can also say that the paintings are prayers.. that they have to do with whatever it is that makes you want more than what daily life affords.

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