As artists are the mythmakers of their time, my images are creating a new mythology of “becoming” using
symbols and archetypes filtered through contemporary popular culture. The spaces I create are irrational,
like Alice’s adventure, I am meeting new characters along the way, arising from my subconscious. In a
constant state of flux, I am uncovering an abundant transformation of forms: molecular, becoming bodily,
becoming nature, becoming spiritual, becoming sexual, becoming woman. All given form in a poisonous
garden of internal desires and fears.
Since I was a child I have know my destiny was to become an artist. Throughout my entire life this has
driven my every action. My artwork is the result of a deep internal search for personal truth which takes
many physical forms. Through the creation of art I explore the journey of my individuation as a human
being.
An inquiring mind has developed my interest in psychology and philosophy, especially that of Deleuze,
Jung, and Freud. Each work I create, delves into the depths of my unconscious revealing truths hidden
within my psyche. In this way, my work can be considered Surrealist in nature, also in the game-like
elements, where I layer materials, found objects, and text with ideas. I am intrigued by story telling
especially that of Lewis Carroll; also mythology, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes, in which I investigate
threads of a collective unconscious. These stories unconsciously flow through my work in a disjunctive
Surrealist form that provides endless curiosities for the viewer. I am also influenced by popular culture and
cartoons I saw as a child. These reemerge in strange forms through the anamorphous figures that
populate my paintings. They don’t have a direct storyline, only one that evolves with the work as it is
created. I don’t make sketches for my paintings because each work is individual and unique to itself,
growing as an organism would.
One theme that has guided me is Deleuze's idea of "becoming". It involves the idea that everything is in
flux, constantly changing, mutating, and becoming something else. I have used this idea in my work to
explore the development of women from girls to "becoming woman". This is represented in the ovary-like
forms becoming plants or flowers and vice versa. My search into the depths of becoming goes so deep
that the very depictions it creates resemble intestines, flesh, blood, making the grotesque beautiful.
symbols and archetypes filtered through contemporary popular culture. The spaces I create are irrational,
like Alice’s adventure, I am meeting new characters along the way, arising from my subconscious. In a
constant state of flux, I am uncovering an abundant transformation of forms: molecular, becoming bodily,
becoming nature, becoming spiritual, becoming sexual, becoming woman. All given form in a poisonous
garden of internal desires and fears.
Since I was a child I have know my destiny was to become an artist. Throughout my entire life this has
driven my every action. My artwork is the result of a deep internal search for personal truth which takes
many physical forms. Through the creation of art I explore the journey of my individuation as a human
being.
An inquiring mind has developed my interest in psychology and philosophy, especially that of Deleuze,
Jung, and Freud. Each work I create, delves into the depths of my unconscious revealing truths hidden
within my psyche. In this way, my work can be considered Surrealist in nature, also in the game-like
elements, where I layer materials, found objects, and text with ideas. I am intrigued by story telling
especially that of Lewis Carroll; also mythology, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes, in which I investigate
threads of a collective unconscious. These stories unconsciously flow through my work in a disjunctive
Surrealist form that provides endless curiosities for the viewer. I am also influenced by popular culture and
cartoons I saw as a child. These reemerge in strange forms through the anamorphous figures that
populate my paintings. They don’t have a direct storyline, only one that evolves with the work as it is
created. I don’t make sketches for my paintings because each work is individual and unique to itself,
growing as an organism would.
One theme that has guided me is Deleuze's idea of "becoming". It involves the idea that everything is in
flux, constantly changing, mutating, and becoming something else. I have used this idea in my work to
explore the development of women from girls to "becoming woman". This is represented in the ovary-like
forms becoming plants or flowers and vice versa. My search into the depths of becoming goes so deep
that the very depictions it creates resemble intestines, flesh, blood, making the grotesque beautiful.
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| Josephine DeFrancis Contemporary Fine Artist |