Alice Engle Quotes

For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?

I`m an average person.

When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.

There is a synchronicity: you start thinking about something and all of a sudden it`s everywhere. It happened to me with the mirrors.

I move very slowly. It`s usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.

Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.

As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.

Color is an intense experience on its own.

There is a broad range of reaction to the work, as there is a broad range of work I make.

But most people don`t come up to me and express a lot of emotion.

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.

Going from one shirt to the next indicates states of transition, of change, not being able to have everything at once, states of concealment.

I wasn`t interested in holding onto the evidence of things.

I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it`s not screwed up by too many references.

I think that some works are more accessible than others.

I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

It`s as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.

I don`t feel a real distance from people, so I don`t think that there is a lack of links. I do sense, at least where I live, a lot of rudeness.

I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.