Comments on: White Wall Wednesday: What Speaks to You

By: Kenneth Vogelsberg

Kenneth Vogelsberg — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 23:56:39 +0000

This image really hit me as I suffer with copd! So many nights I awake suffocating! great work!

By: Gallagher Green

Gallagher Green — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 04:25:58 +0000

I love this photo, I think it is going to be my new laptop background. 😉
The wet sheet has inspired me to try something involving a wet sheet, but I need to wait for the next cold weather front.
The people at your sculpture class that were there last time are probably excited to see what you make this round! Has anyone else in the class tried something different after seeing your work?
I know what you mean about having darkness in artwork that we don’t have in our personalities. I am writing another for story, and this one is an apocalypse story. I have surprised myself with how dark it is. I don’t outline, I just write, and last night as I typed it out I had trouble believing this was me telling the story….. I have never had that feeling before, not to that extent.
I hate scary and/or violent/gory movies, I won’t even watch them. So when I found myself typing something I would never read or watch on TV, I was surprised to say the least.

P.S.
That was horrible of your cousin to do you poor thing.

By: Ewa

Ewa — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 18:46:44 +0000

” Why it has to be so dark?” was one of the most common frases of my mother when she was looking at my (or my brother´s) drawings.
I never knew. In fact I still don´t know. I find it really hard to explain. Sometimes I think that dark looks more true to me.
I agree with you, we are too complicated to just say “hey it was after I did or saw something. Then I became dark. ”
Sadly, I hear statements, that darkness cannot be beautiful. I disagree. Have you ever met this kind of opinion?

And from the other hand, sometimes props for my pictures are really hard to explain. Why do I pick up leaves from the street? Why do I carry bones in my backpack? Or how to explain to your husband that you would like to have a medieval sword?
Wish you all the best & thank you for being here and inspiring me! It is really a great feeling knowing that there are people like you in the world:)

By: Paulo Carvalho

Paulo Carvalho — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 18:43:05 +0000

Fantastic! I loved this video! The image really has your signature. Beautiful! Yes! You must create whatever you want, when you want and what you feel. That’s what defines you, and that’s why I love you! This week I also posted my new work and practically followed this line of creating with what I have at home: A small mask and a chest. If you would like to see, I invite you and all of you to visit my blog:

https://goo.gl/irWpXR

Stay well my dear!

By: Anna Bruce

Anna Bruce — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 18:38:35 +0000

Haha you’re the best! I really do love your approach to creating. It is so freeing. I don’t have much to say, I am kind of in lala land right now haha. Have a great day!

By: AnneLou Robkin

AnneLou Robkin — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 18:19:13 +0000

Brooke, thank you for articulating the fascination and joy found in “The Dark side.” I, too, have favored the weird and even the macabre, but not as ugly things, but as celebrations of life and death. My friends have accepted this “weirdness,” and some have even been just as “weird.” Along with hedgehogs, owls, and crows, I collect skulls and Day of the Dead artifacts. I am especially fond of the Day of the Dead, with the rollicking skeletons and wonderful colors. Vive la morte!