Betsy Noorzay

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For me, part of the joy of creating art is in the awareness of the possibility that something is visually interesting--usually exciting--to me. It can be splatters of an ice cream cone against the pavement, the form a turn in the river takes, the criss-crossing of telephone wires creating divisions of space in a landscape field, the expression of a face or posture, the integration of an emotional or spiritual prompting with an intellectual process of how to bring that into the open. This is a period of awareness, then brooding, contemplation. Sometimes it lasts a short period, sometimes it harbors in me for months or years, gestating. With landscape work, however, I find my response to be much more immediate. Whatever the process, it is in the initial act of laying brush to blank canvas, or diving into whatever medium I chose to use, that excites me with moment of possibility and discovery. I find out that what I had in mind may be not be what actually happens. Through this process, I have come to learn that Loren Eisley's statement, "Expect the unexpected, " is part of the risk one takes in making art. It may provide both disappointment and thrilling discovery. Anything really interesting has paradoxical elements-- like life itself. Creating, in one form or another, keeps my soul alive and it heals my body.
			Chance Grid © 1987, Betsy Noorzay	A New Reality © 1985, Betsy Noorzay	Target: Localization © 1989, Betsy Noorzay
			Waiting © 1988, Betsy Noorzay	Radiation © 1988, Betsy Noorzay	Surgery © 1990, Betsy Noorzay
			Holocaust © 1985, Betsy Noorzay	Depression © 1990, Betsy Noorzay	I'm Not Allowed to Cry © 1989, Betsy Noorzay

After and Before © 1988, Betsy Noorzay	Cafeteria © 1991, Betsy Noorzay	Globalization © 1992, Betsy Noorzay	Chance of Recovery © 1992, Betsy Noorzay

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