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By Barbara Heile
Special to the Rappahannock News
“When You Weren’t Looking” is a finely realized showing of prints on view at The Packing Shed Gallery in Washington, Virginia. The artist Heather Self has completed a cycle in her life, that of the liberal arts education, earning a B.FA in Printmaking this spring from Shepherd College. These are one-of-a-kind prints, monotypes by definition, yet through her unique process they border on painting. They are very strong, very tender, and very mysterious. The show closes on May 1. Gallery hours are Thursday-Monday 12:30- 7pm;
The Packing Shed Gallery is located on the comer of Porter and Gay Streets.
The following impressions mirror aspects of the prints themselves and the process by which she created them. When you weren’t looking, something else becomes visible. While Heather wasn’t looking she emerged through the process of following and trusting what she loved. She is articulate, both verbally and artistically, when she describes all the pieces of her life that became loved by her. Once again, art imitates life.
The pieces come into view the longer one looks. Listening through the eyes, deeper and more deeply, intellectually not knowing what meaning they have, we begin to experience “felt meaning.” American philosopher and psychotherapist Eugene Gendlin realized this term after experiencing meaning in a state of deep listening. Drs. Campbell and McMahon found that “the bodys ability to experience felt meaning is the forgotten bridge into the experience of Spirit.” Art is a door for that experience.
Heather’s intention has been realized in these one-of-a-kind prints. They are developed more intensely than the norm for a monotype, with early etched plates used as a base layer under countless other layers of intaglio techniques. The medium of etching is no doubt the one vehicle to express the precision of her feeling, the precision of her thought and the veiled mystery of her experience. Another layer/impression emerges: they are not veiled in a cold, unapproachable way; rather the overall warmth of the inks and the pro
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