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Words I Never Sent
Mixed media on panel
11" x 14"
$1,200 USD
Between two bright yellow lines, like the margins of a page, rows of dark marks gather in silence. Heavy black shapes sit in the middle of the panel, blotted and smeared like sentences crossed out again and again. Above and below them, thinner lines of maroon, rust and orange run in dotted, hesitant rhythms, some breaking off before they reach the end. Small red splashes fall near the bottom edge like a few last words that slipped out anyway. Mandie poured and dripped each line, letting some spread into blots and others thin to a thread. The painting holds everything we feel but never say, and there is something freeing in finally seeing it laid out in the light.
A writer's study or a modern home office is the natural setting for this graphic, introspective panel. Its black marks and yellow margins look sharp against pale walls, with black frames, a vintage typewriter or a stack of journals nearby.
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