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(SOLD) My Body Knows Unheard-Of Songs Painting

Toni Cogdell

United Kingdom

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 27.6 W x 31.5 H x 2 D in

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Masked and blindfolded she still sees through the darkness, walking inwards with wings at her feet, finding solace and strength in the poetry of her exile. The walls of her heart are painted like the first caves. No longer mute she will write in white ink, her Mother tongue, allowing her Unknown to surface like a pearl through layers of silt and fogged water, salt secreted in its scars. The truth of her form; a monolith, a mountain, a lighthouse beyond an ocean of grief and joy, depths of water beneath a dark mass of land uncharted yet expectant, waiting for its stories to be told, to be sung, demanding a bravery to learn how to let go. She makes her own marks. They will cut open the inroads to her Self, toward her dark river, releasing her from the marble, giving her breath and to us a new vision - her gaze. (excerpt - by Toni Cogdell) Inspired by and response to Hélène Cixous' ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’.

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Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:27.6 W x 31.5 H x 2 D in

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Toni was born in 1979 and now works from her studio in Bristol England. She works mainly in oil on canvas or linen. ...... "As flickers of starlight in a constellation of living bodies, the figures in my paintings are solitary, but not alone. The inward moment they are captured in; their form fusing with paint, marks and textures, acts as a portal to spaces behind knowledge, a sensory sea of feeling, a self beneath our belief of the self. Us, simultaneously set in consciousness and clay. Symbolised in paint are the comforting and familiar objects which reveal themselves through the haze of daily life. A repetition of natural reminders cutting through a technology-driven Age. The horizon in your periphery as you travel. The tree you see every morning unrewardingly standing as the backbone to your inner monologue. City lights floating on water at night, flowers scattered like fallen stars on the land, silhouettes of hills behind buildings, birds, blossom, branches, our own personal talismans of nature and living. Motifs and markers that guide us subliminally. And like the movement of migrating birds we connect. Our dreams and designs launching into the cosmos, gravitating towards kin, leaving invisible threads with which to weave a life. These themes are the crux of my work, meandering across the territory of the Human Condition, exploring the constant dialogue, contrasts and tensions between the lives we lead and the lives we feel, our outer and inner worlds, the spaces between the parts. Exploring our individuation as well as our innate connections to nature, time and ultimately to each other. Telling the story of us from the inside out, through painting. Somewhere between a wish and a call to arms." Sign up to my newsletter, details on my website www.toni-art.co.uk

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