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Tell It Slant Painting

Sydney Walker

United States

Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 18 W x 28 H x 0.5 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Emily Dickinson famously wrote, “Tell all the truth but tell it slant.” The poet recommends telling the truth in a circuitous, indirect manner to counter frightening us, such as we seek to soften the truth for children. The truth, Dickinson believes, can blind. Telling the truth slant is difficult. We tend toward distortion, omission and embellishment. Dickinson, however, has in mind a gradual revealing. The six-panel painting literally tells it slant with individual images demonstrating a partial revealing, some more than others, but never all the truth at once as Dickinson endorses

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Multi-paneled Painting:

Acrylic on Canvas

Original:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

18 W x 28 H x 0.5 D in

Number of Panels:

2

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Since retiring as a professor of art education from The Ohio State University in 2016, Sydney has returned to full-time artmaking. During her tenure as a professor, she researched and wrote extensively about the artmaking process, authoring the widely-read text, Teaching Meaning in Artmaking (2000), and, most recently, a work in process, Naming Play for Artmaking. These writings entertain strategies that inform her own artmaking practice, most particularly that of play as it involves chance, nonsense, and experimentation. Through this process, she draws together the disparate to bring forth new ways of thinking such as intertwining a playful aesthetic of oppositions with spiritual seriousness in her most recent work.

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