I started a mixed media painting using the wax paint formula the Denise showed us. The painting is informed by the use of light and dark as metaphor that I learnt from my reading about Odillon Redon's work, as well as a quotation from Kandinsky's 'Concerning the Spriritual in Art' that stuck with me:
'The soul does not as yet courageously admit it's fear, that the light might be a dream, and the encircling darkness, reality'.
The painting is my imagining of this 'dream light', and how it might feel to find it within the darkness of a cave. If we think of the cave as a metaphor for the psychological landscape, it challenges the idea that light is only found outside of the confines of a cave, outside of ourselves. This painting is about venturing into ourselves and discovering our inner light.
