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Of course, the viewer's emotional reaction mav he opposite what Slack intended to get across. "In some paintings, I don't intend to convey ant particular meaning. I try to -find the meaning as I'm working on the piece. It's like the gu\ who invents chewing gum only to have everybody use it as glue. I he fellow ends up getting credit tor inventing glue. So. what the artist intends and what people take the work tor can he worlds apart. In that sense, the spectator finishes the piece by the meaning he or she brings to it. That's the creative element at work in the audience.”
The images that Slack creates have that spark that makes people respond And echoes of those images linger in the mentors long alter the viewer has inched back down the winding, rutted road that leads up into the I I Valley s hills to the ait tilled frame home Sl.uk shares with his wile. I.auric Mai shall, an artist herself and teacher in the Rappahannock schools' program lor gifted and talented soungsters.
Slack grew up in th Kanaw ha' \ a I lev ot W , Virginia, a poverty plague.
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