Images and metaphors of fluidity -- streams, ebbs, tides and flows -- are often used to describe consciousness. In an historical tradition, I expressed the relationship between literature and psychology through these metaphors, and used archetypal shapes and imagery to compose my half of a "conversation" with another artist.

These sixteen drawings provide glimpses into a developing life philosophy, exploring ideas about love, nature, the self, society, creativity, sexuality, and existence -- in an impulsive, spontaneous way. Composed over wine-laden conversations with friends about spirituality and philosophy, politics or cartoons, they were rendered by candlelight, amidst a haze of cigarette smoke in a college frat house, in a basement drawing studio, or on a cold sun porch overlooking a city at rush hour.

These are an approximation of wandering thoughts, captured sixteen times over two months, externalizing the whispers creeping through my mind and contextualizing the culmination of intense collegiate studies and references in the face of the daily life of a 21-year-old.

Victoria Boardman
Hartford, CT, March 2003

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