Camille Danielle Wortman
ART Habens
craziness to create attention. I would like art to elevate
us,to make me smile in complicity, to make me feel
good to be part of the human race. As a contempory
writer I love Helena ferrante . I live in a kibbutz, far
away from the art scene and I haven’t got too much to
say about contempory artists who seem to neglect the
visual esthetics of art which is still very important in my
eyes.
I love working on large canvases, almost square, If I
could afford it I would love to use 140x 140cm size
canvasses the whole time. Why? I couldn’t tell, it is
almost physical. I feel good in front of a square ! I know
this is weird, and yet this is the way I feel. My husband,
a fan of my work, always tells me that there is plenty to
see there. Maybe I want the viewer to navigate in my
paintings as I am navigating through life... I don’t know,
as everything I do while I paint is not totally done
consciously. I have seen some paintings of mine a few
years after I had painted them, at the homes of people
that had acquiered them and I looked at them like a
stranger wandering how and why I painted them that
way... Reading back some of my poems , I feel about it
in the same way, and yet , yes my work is all linked to
me, but who on earth is me! And yes, big canvasses
need to be viewed from a distance, and maybe in a
public space!
Wow! As soon as something is transposed on a pad or a
canvas it becomes an abstraction, obviously. I
personnaly never paint outside, but I internalise the
outside in me! All the landscapes I paint are made of my
memories of Tunisia, of zikim, of the fall in Canada,but it
is all imagined anew on my work , and without any
conscious decision of mine. It just happens! Even when I
start by wanting to make a painting out of a detail of a
big canvas, pretty soon my painting takes a new
direction independantly from me and from then on it
has a life of its own.As a matter of fact many paintings
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