“It does not illustrate. It is the sensation of its own realization.”
–Cy Twombly
Elinor duPont Sachs graduated from Tulane University in 2021 with a BFA in painting. Her work explores how feeling can be expressed through abstraction, with the meaning and mystery of each piece existing in the connection between creator and viewer. The color palettes are soft, delicate, almost ethereal, vigorously scrubbed in and scrubbed out of the piece, the rough textures arguing with pastels, fighting with itself to form an unreachable perfection, perhaps causing discomfort in the drips, the words, the symbols, or even the emotion spurred by looking at the piece. Her frustrations with reproductive rights and fascination with reproductive biology decides the color, material, and energy put into certain pieces, all blossoming with an allude to life, intertwined with frustration, question and experience.
“Some things I cannot illustrate on the canvas in any formative way, so I paint the pain into the piece. I create to expel the frustration of what it is simpler not to feel. Living in the after of emotion, there is a twinge of addiction to romantic sadness, wallowing in what you’re painting about.”
—Elinor Sachs