A rti st p ro f i l e
Word Series: The Most Important Thought, mixed media on paper/panel, 30 x 40"
Antoinnette Noble I ’ v e bee n w r i t i n g j o u r n a l s — was encouraged to do it
after reading the artist’s way in 1993 . She suggested 3 pages every morning — in a kind of stream of consciousness style to clear the garbage out of your head, to clear the creative block. After I finished the book I kept writing journals daily. I can’t tell you how many journals I have — boxes and boxes. I then said, “Okay, I have to do something with the journals.” I was going to pack them up and get rid of them. Even though they were taking up all the room in the house I couldn’t throw them out. — I thought, Maybe I can take the words and do something with them to make them matter. Make MY life matter. They are my private journals. They’re not for reading, not public, not a story about my life. I liked the public private thing. So going back to the Artist’s Way, let me stay with the process of the book. I would take a few pages, not read them, tear them up, and work quickly. Just put them down and see what happens.
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Martha’s Vineyard Arts & Ideas Early Summer 2 0 1 2
Word Series: Fluttering Thoughts, mixed media on paper/panel, 30 x 40"