Roberta Allen Art & Writing & One-on-One Workshops

In this series, I explore aspects of human experience through image and text. 

Despite psychological theories, philosophical debates and neurologic investigations into exactly what the mind is, the mind remains an enigma. Unlike the brain which is a physical
entity, we cannot touch the mind, which represents our thoughts, feelings and consciousness, essentially the process of thinking and experiencing the world.

Often, I present the mind as pulsing energy in circular forms. Using gold and copper inks on black paper, I hint at a spiritual component while presenting states of what I consider to be the ordinary mind in order to encourage viewers to reflect upon their own subjective experience.
 

Gold + copper pens on black archival paper, each 12 x 9" 
Selections from 100+ drawings in no particular order

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