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A question for Dinorá: What does painting like a collage artist satisfy in you?

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Thank you for the insightful review! Your sensibility allows you to see and feel much of what goes on in my heart and in my mind. You articulate beautifully in words what I articulate visually.

The look of collage is the result of the interplay between the defined edges of the marbled designs and the oil-painted parts. Being the first layer, the marbled areas set the tone for what comes next. I find it natural to play with this boundary, and in some paintings I emphasize the straight edges more, while relaxing them in others. Introducing a variety of patterns to the visual field also heightens the challenge, seen in nature, of harmonizing disparate visual stimulation. I look forward to each new painting and the possibilities it offers to explore pictorial language.

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Thanks so much, Dinorá. I love your use of the word "boundary." Those boundaries are one reason your paintings are so energizing. My eyes keep colliding with the boundaries, and then tumbling from one visual territory to the next. At the same time, there's this synthesis – as if the satisfaction is, of course, in making it all come together as a whole. Bit by bit, pulling it together.

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Thank you for the insightful review! Your sensibility allows you to see and feel much of what goes on in my heart and in my mind. You articulate beautifully in words what I articulate visually.

The look of collage is the result of the interplay between the defined edges of the marbled designs and the oil-painted parts. Being the first layer, the marbled areas set the tone for what comes next. I find it natural to play with this boundary, and in some paintings I emphasize the straight edges more, while relaxing them in others. Introducing a variety of patterns to the visual field also heightens the challenge, seen in nature, of harmonizing disparate visual stimulation. I look forward to each new painting and the possibilities it offers to explore pictorial language.

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