ABSTRACTION Elizabeth C DeMarco This work reflects my life as a woman who has lived half in one century and nearly two decades in another, in visual form. Engaged with life I am witness to my time. Some paintings reflect the pure joy of putting brushes loaded with color on canvas. Others reflect love, birth, family, death, loss, women’s issues, aging, the angst of living in a world that is coming apart in ways I do not understand. Communication is important to me; English, Spanish, music, literature, marks on cave walls and art. Abstraction uses the basic elements of art; line, color, shape form, space, value, rhythm, the mark, depiction and dissolution, so this form expresses far more than I am able to express in words or in realistic depictions. Painting from a deeply visceral place is a process. Unconsciously a series develops as I work in my studio or in a workshop. The visual surprises I discover, by losing myself in a world without words, is filled with meaning and depth that I often don’t see. Until I do. Abstraction is my jazz, my poetry.