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Minstream 17, Bill Santelli, colored pencil on paper<\/p><\/div>\n

A three-person exhibition, Constellations<\/em>, featuring paintings, drawings, and installation works by Sara Baker Michalak, Bill Santelli, and Mizin Shin will open shortly at Main Street Arts<\/a>. It\u2019s curated around the commonality of their work. Each, in different ways, builds a patterned image\u2014loosely or with gridded regularity\u2014that aims for the cosmic. As with every painting, the particulars matter because of their unity within the whole work, but in this case the particulars are mostly effaced within the flow of what\u2019s happening everywhere else.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve known Bill for years and was pleased to hear that he\u2019d been invited into this show, having seen these new drawings on Instagram over the past year. Like his Prismacolor drawings in the Path<\/a> series, these explorations of thought\u2014the honeycomb of ovals suggestive of thinking\u2019s fragmented flow\u2014represent a patient, repetitive and extremely disciplined practice using the simplest combinations of tone and line. In the Path series, he creates long, languid and pliant streaks of color that evoke tall grass bending in a breeze, where each line creates cells of pale monochrome. They are like leaded panes of stained glass, but also look surprisingly like glimpses of dawn breaking over wetlands.<\/p>\n

In these newer drawings, his colors are even simpler and richer, and the minimalism of the Path drawings has been reduced to a grid of loops with less reference to nature. When I asked him to describe what went into the drawings, he wrote \u201cI began these drawings after reading about the concept of \u2018mindstream\u2019 in Buddhist philosophy, which is described as . . . the moment-to-moment flow of sense impressions and mental phenomena.\u201d <\/p>\n

He offered some background on his preoccupations in this work. He\u2019s been reading a lot about Krishnamurti\u2014a long-standing source of inspiration for his work\u2014and watching videos of his talks. Krishnamurti\u2019s focus consistently returned to a mindfulness that pulls back from the conscious mind\u2019s endless jabber, the flow of that in-the-head narrator. He urged his listeners to impartially observe the operation of their own minds in an attempt to disengage from the grip of reactive thought and action. (Isn\u2019t that a good phrase for our current national disease?) These drawings, for Santelli, grapple with his awareness of his own thought bubbles, as it were, floating past as he meditates or walks\u2014pulling him away from being fully present and aware. Krishnamurti’s central point is to get his practitioner to disengage and become an observer of everything the mind is doing–to simply be aware of it all, and that awareness alone will awaken a kind of intelligence that isn’t simply conscious reasoning. It’s a bit like the Greeks referred to as nous<\/em>. If you see yourself clearly, down to the roots of your behavior and thinking, both of those are changed as a result of that clarity.<\/p>\n

Not that this is necessarily what Santelli is attempting to represent here. But it’s related. As he puts it in his statement for the show: \u201cAs with all my work, the drawings are an introspective process \u2013 I find myself reflecting on the inner journey, about letting go of old forms and opening to new ones, of balancing the path inward with the pathway outward. The choreography of shapes and colors creates a motion across the paper, a fluid yet gently turbulent \u201cmindstream\u201d that arises and passes away in each moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

As with the Path series, these drawings are in colored pencil\u2014mostly Prismacolors in the ultramarine and dark gold images. He\u2019s also working with Caran d\u2019ache Luminance pencils in the brighter work for \u201ca palette shift.\u201d\u00a0 He says, \u201cThe Caran d’ache colors are really nice, but each pencil costs almost $5!\u201d he joked. When I asked about his shift from the Path series to this new mode, he said he continues to do the Path work, but they take much longer to complete.<\/p>\n

He\u2019ll be showing one 22 x 30 inch drawing in this Mindstream series and the rest are much smaller.\u00a0 For those he worked with strips of paper cut from larger sheets used with the bigger work. \u201cI had these strips laying around and I was able to get the most individual paintings by cutting the strips down to 5.75\u201d x 8\u201d. I\u2019m happy with what I\u2019m doing in the Mindstream work.\u201d<\/p>\n

I asked why the ovals? \u201cI have used geometric shapes (circles, squares, triangles, rectangles) in other series of drawings I’ve done.\u00a0 But the oval, hardly ever.\u00a0 Visually, I think of the oval more as a form for these considering drawings (inspired by forms and shapes I was seeing on my morning walks), and also what I was trying to convey – which was\u00a0(and here he quoted his statement in progress) “a choreography of shape\/form moving across the paper – each individual shape\/form representing a separate thought, that would arise and fall away as I worked.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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