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Drawings are the beginnings and end of each stage of my work. They are mainstay and foundation on which I add the flesh of beauty, space, pattern, and energy. A pen or pencil in hand extends my thinking ability whatever I draw or list. Shading lead marks on a surface is hypnotic for me, figure drawings are discovery and construction, sequential work is story telling, doodling becomes a sculpture or fantasized image. I pursue the paths of my marks, allowing them to reveal what I don't know consciously, to share with my audience that which energizes me. My drawings are often symbols or story from memories and fantasy, the gestalt of my internalized world which words cannot do justice.
Human vocal language evolved into words from human need to express, but words do not tell the entire
story of human life. One characteristic that differentiates humans from other mammals is ability to create and use symbols. Seeing my hands at work scratching, rubbing, and forming something out of elementary materials connects me to our predecessors whose very survival was dependent on mark reading.
Animal presence announced by prints, feces or breakage led to food or away from danger, learning marks from hidden water or friction marks left by those near and friendly. The extraordinary degree of liveliness in aboriginal images and sculpture strongly influence my mark making and forms.
I have a fantasy. An Aboriginal family steps into my time zone, sees my drawings, and does not fear me. Creating art places me in the company of the ancients, while speaking to contemporaries of my presence.
August, 2009, Jewish Federation of St. Louis website
featured article on Hyman's philosophical approach to art.
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