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      DESIGNER'S EXPRESSION from PLUTO'S EDGE

                                       A WRITING SAMPLE

Within the deepest recesses of our psychological selves, there lives a vibrant exchange, a dialogue between our constantly changing interactions with our environment and the uninscribed visual manifestations of what it is to be human in today's world.
                         --c. mcgrath

In expressing this interior life through powerful visual language, designers, acting as artists, share their experiences with viewers, surfacing our own deepest conflicts and pulling us back down into the depths of self.  We are swept into identification with each recaptured vision, transformed from mere observer to fellow expressionist in feeling, awakened to the thoughts of our normally subsumed anxieties and struggles.  Those beasts that reside within us, those rapid firing synapses of energizing reaction, leap forward into consciousness when triggered by each designer's expressionistic response to his or her world.  In contemplation with the self, we are confronted with our reactions to the self of others, and this interchange is a common theme in all dynamic communication.   From multi-textured firey figures, childlike cartoons and alienated child-like creatures, to layers and layers of overlapping, swirling, minimalist perspectives, we as viewers participate in the designer's dialogue of mind.

Today's designers share identities with early 20th Century Fauvists as they describe their world in electronic space.  We all share the sense of personal struggle, the ability to visualize tumultuous encounters of everyday life - from dull intertia to raging, violent anger.  Being immersed in the digital studios of the designer's struggle to articulate this vastness of life, is like a drive into the depths of their synaptic, syncopative memories. Momentarily, you attach yourself to the virtuosity of humanity's recessive images, which are laid bare in the pulsating sparks of light.

                -- adapted from the Curator's Statment for an exhibit
                    at People's Art Space, a gallery for experimental art
                    in Corpus Christi, TX

     Margaret  Israel, The Seven Temperaments (detail) 1975  

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