Sige Weisman – Sanguinity 6

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Artist Statement

I use acrylic paint and collage paper to unwind my perfectionism and connect with the spontaneous joy of improvisational mark making. I approach each new piece with a beginner’s mind, holding an openness, eagerness and lack of preconception, like an alluring dance with the unknown. Abstract art is my teacher. It heals and makes whole the parts of me that want things to be “just so.” In the studio, my goal-oriented, meticulous
nature has to surrender to the uncomfortable, dynamic tension of not knowing where I’m going. Abstraction asks me to give up the urge to faithfully reproduce what I see in my mind’s eye. Instead, I follow an emergent process.
I begin by laying down a color, a mark, or a piece of collage paper that sparks my interest, and then I simply respond. Each piece unfolds as a series of impulses and responses until there is no obvious next move. When something inside me relaxes into calm delight, I know the work is finished.