Studio Notes: My Creative Processes and Inspirations

My creative works, inclusive of visual artworks and my poetic works, are inspired by the creative manifestations and processes of nature.

I seek to convey this depth of connection with the earth and life cycles by composing my works in a manner that encourages an intimacy with the subject of the painting, print or poem. Often, I combine--or intermingle--processes, materials and means of aesthetic composition to generate a more encompassing experience of the work. There is often an interflow between those sublime events of my having been immersed in nature--transformed by her--and the art and poetry that such timeless moments inspire.

Primeval Awakening, a mixed-media work on canvas, is one of my newest compositions that reveals how my visual art is in relationship to my poetry. This piece, like much of my writing, communicates my deep reverence for and connection with the natural world.

Often, an experience inspires me to respond both by way of poetic imagery and visual imagery. There is a flow of energy and a feeling tone that is conveyed between the two forms of creative response. While the literary and the visual works each develop and grow towards a self-contained fullness of composition, they are rooted in the same earth.

Coalescence

With fingers, passionately reverent, seeking to query wisdom from the earths' soil, I dig

Fingers deep into her mantle--into her illusory solidity to connect in this manner

Becoming one in these moments with the amalgamated pieces beneath surfaces, realizing

Particles of the light of resonant creation sounding here in this very soil, the flourescence

Of creation felt beneath our nails, the soil of earth experience as seeds sometimes and

As flowers then breaking open to reveal to sensing fingers in time comprehending

Truth that they are touching, that they are each intermingling their sensing forms at one

With their very origins--touching with the elemental and originating substance of all

That moves, and breathes and dies rising forth in cyclical rhythms recurring and falling

To become one again--becoming one with these broken vessels--star shards holding

The light of creation once broken wide and open as an unfathomable expanse held

Cradled within the soil of experience that is my body, this humbled body

Of this soil of this very earth, all of this flowing sand now through my fingers

These fingers touching an infinite portiion of these intermingling grains of light,

The emanting infinitude of these innumerable hosts of stars, now one

With the breaking bones touching these seeking fingers questing to know the source

Of this very light cradled within earth's soil breaking--breaking

These fingers are seeking--are querying wisdom from hard experience; are digging

Deeper into her mantle, reaching into her illusory immateriality, finding there the bones

And flesh and the vital substance wholly mingling--we each--mingle with her

Mingle with her myriad amalgamated pieces, as we each continue digging

Fingers deeper into this soil, reaching

Our fingers deeper into this light

Poem from Singing Earthward, by Linda L. Anderson
copyright 2010, Linda L. Anderson

Primeval Awakening, copyright 2010, by Linda L. Anderson, is currently on exhibit

at King Street Art Works, 234 W. King Street, Strasburg, VA 22657