PATRICIA “TRISH” VERNAZZA
One of the key aspects of art, in enjoying and creating it, is interpretation. People come from many different backgrounds and the experiences that they have in life inform the thoughts and decisions that they make in the present. Often times, two people can look at the same piece of artwork and come up with different interpretations based on the lives that they have lived. In psychotherapy, the work we do is often in guiding our patients to examine and interpret their feelings and the experiences that they have been through. Art is merely the unguided journey.
Magical Thinking
(Cradled Canvas, Mixed Media: Oil, Acrylic, Gold/Copper Leaf, Graphite and Stenciling. 24” x 24”)
In a haze of rose and gold, three women drift between worlds, the real and the imagined, the seen and the felt, their faces, touched by fragments of light and shadow, seem to whisper secrets only intuition can hear. One gazes upward, caught in the trance of wonder; another looks outward, serene and knowing; the third lingers between them, an echo of thought suspended in dream.