Joseph Goldfedder
My process of drawing is like crossing a threshold from the ordinary to the non-ordinary world. I am influenced by contemplating plant botanicals, viscera of the body and sacred geometry. The visual language of dreams, symbols and imagery from ancient cultures stir within me like awakened cellular memories. Fragments of ideas activate as if entering an ecstatic trance. It’s a journey of connection to a descending energy of Spirit. There’s a particular joy I feel when making a pencil line move across paper or a crayon scribble creating a splotch of color. Hinting at a shape, drawing is likened to a process of allowing this energy to move through me onto the paper. My focus when I start a drawing is an attempt to manifest imagery from subtle planes of vibration. Throughout this process I’m reminded again and again, that as multi-dimensional beings, we have the ability to tap into unseen wisdom and knowledge. Drawing is a process of shifting from the mundane to express a moment of space, time, matter, energy and information of the multiverse.
There’s a sense of joy when graphite, crayon or brush moves across a blank page. The medium becomes part of the message. Color, lines create a palpable energy expressed in the process of drawing. It’s a communication in a visual language. Sometimes I’ll see a shape in my mind’s eye, but more often the image evolves from the paper. A common theme is a spin from a central axis just as I imagine energy moving within us and our chakras. Sometimes it’s a descending energy, sometimes it’s an energy rising up from within. Stepping back, hands as my guide, energy moves through me like breath or spirit. It’s the spirit which fills us all full. I suppose this is a lofty ideal that I strive to achieve in my work.
I consider many of these drawing works as works in progress. Explorations of color, form with a feeling tone of energy moving, creating and healing. Imagery from my minds-eye, this energy is always waiting to be expressed for guidance in the everyday mundane world. I think of it as energy attempting to pierce the veil of our awareness and consciousness. Information is coded within this energy that’s expressed within our bodies. Our job is to allow energy as we see fit to move within and decide how it can help move forward in our lives.
