Stephanie Sturton
Grosse Pointe Park MI

Gone
Painting
Artist Statement
My art is psychological archeology. Immersing myself in a personal
experience from the past, allows me to connect and unlock my
subconscious thoughts. Embodying these emotional occurrences,
I become liberated from self-censorship. Through the process of free
writing, I am able to release repressed memories and explore my own
subconscious thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that exist in my mind.
I attempt to invite the viewer back to earlier psychological strata
in processes of decomposition and movement. Explore the process of
creating and releasing ones affectively charged, abstract concepts
before the splitting of word, meaning, and affect. The movement of
forms becoming dialog is constructed through a habitually active
process of repeating gestures, mentally processing and physically
regurgitating the decomposition of emotion. Words give tangible,
limited, and discrete meaning to abstract ideas. I intend to reverse
the process, giving the abstract idea back to the word.
Clarity is unimportant.