“nothing is in stasis”

 The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope,
while the left eye peers into the microscope.

Leonora Carrington, Down Below

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Debra l. Hopkins, Curator of Exhibitions at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts back in 1998, wrote about my first solo élan vital …

“Nothing is in stasis; Martinez is the magician/alchemist striving to distill impurities and transmute her subjects into gold, creating alternate worlds of cosmic scope and microscopic intimacy.”

I’ve always appreciated her descriptive words. I remember the first part of that sentence almost every time I come to my drawing table, nothing is in stasis.

In some ways, nothing has changed…and then of course, it all has.

I believe I’m complete with this new drawing.