Artist Name

Erin Meagher

Title

I Wish I Could Yell Louder

Medium

Painting assemblage

Visual Description

A series of 4 strips of canvas. To begin I started by laying a canvas as tall and wide as me flat on the ground outside and I was flinging different colors of paint at the blank, unpainted canvas, and then letting the wet paint that I mixed with water, drip, so that I held the canvas vertically, and let the drips fall in different directions across the canvas, by shaking and holding the canvas so that gravity acted on the wet drips. I left the canvas outside in the hot sun and dust for days. Then I cut up the canvas into long strips. Some strips are as tall as a small person. Some strips are as tall as a baby. Each has a blank, unpainted background. On one piece, words are written in black at the top and the words say: "Allow yourself plenty of space to grieve even as you recognize and express gratitude for what remains. Face your grief but remember it is only part of the story." On another different strip, words are written in black at the bottom left corner and the words say: "I was going to paint outside but then the dust and then the fire came so I am inside with a mask on instead." Each of the four strips has bright colors of paint that is smudged, splattered, dripped, thrown, or scribbled onto the canvas. There are also smooth and carefully painted curves and lines and dots made with tiny brushes, drips of paint, and fingertips.

Materials

Acrylic paints and oil pastels on canvas

Image Source

Jenna Fischer