Roberta Allen

In this series, I explore aspects of human experience through image and text (sometimes with humor) to reveal the inner world.

While alluding to the Large Mind--universal consciousness, I paradoxically map the ordinary, everyday mind to encourage reflection.
 
Despite psychological theories, philosophical debates and neurologic investigations into exactly what the mind is, the mind remains an enigma. 

Historically, gold has been associated with the spiritual and has been used in artworks to evoke a transcendental state conducive to reflection and meditation while  in ancient alchemy, copper represented the transformation of the soul. It was sacred to the Greeks and Romans.

Gold + copper pens on black archival paper, each 12 x 9" 
Selections from 100+ drawings in no particular order

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