Lynda Schlosberg: Frequency Tuning

It seems that we live in a world of sides. Where we are encouraged to identify with one side or the other with very little in between. Democrat or Republican. Wall or no wall. Inclusion or exclusion. Joyful or sad. Life or death. Although to be honest, I’ve never been all that interested in defining sides, instead I’ve been more fascinated in a macrocosm where all things are intermingled, out of which anything is possible. Perhaps it’s the ever-widening divisions in society these days that has me even more focused on exploring the blending point where “sides” stop asserting themselves and start to become fuzzy. However, my interest is far more metaphysical than it is socio-political.

We experience the world with our intellect and physical senses, yet there is also an invisible sea of energy beyond our awareness that surrounds, connects, and influences us. In this work I explore the crossing point between these physical and non-physical worlds. Is there some sort of barrier, or plane, that separates the two? Is it a chasm to be crossed? A wall to be climbed? A tunnel to pass through or a river to float down? Is it a thin veil that obscures vision? Or is it a hazy state of consciousness that one simply ‘tunes into’ from one side or the other? And is it possible to adjust one’s frequency-tuning abilities to move easily between worlds, or to experience both at the same time?

The paintings in this exhibit are inspired by both natural and unnatural elements. Rivers, trees, glaciers and chasms exert themselves across the canvas atop fluid pools of color and intermingled with a cacophony of lines and dots as they organize themselves into various arrangements. Color, values and pattern are all used to subtly push space both backwards and forwards simultaneously. In some paintings dark areas juxtaposed with lighter areas read as solid forms hovering in space, and conversely the lighter areas appear as cut-outs pushing the dark areas deeper into space. In other paintings the layers appear more flattened and intermingled yet still force the eye to decide what is foreground and what is background, often not finding a resolution. The eye becomes the tuning device that leads fluidly back and forth between multiple levels of being and eradicates the simple division into one side or the other..