Symbolism is a complex and nuanced language that takes time to build an understanding of, especially on a personal level. How are you working to become fluent in your individual symbolic understandings? In this week's show we look at the power of symbols and I try to give some words to my passion for this topic. I discussed my relationship to the four leaf clover, and how that symbol has transcended just a lucky sign. The picture is of a page in an old sketchbook of mine where I taped down 4 leaf clovers as I found them. It is really hard to convey how near and dear to me this topic is and I hope I am able to begin to explain the power of symbol.
In college I had a professor tell me once that if I taught anything to my students, it had to be symbol. At the time I was like "of course", but it wasn't till years later when I found the meaning and personal relationship that I understood why he told me that. Artists in any field must develop their own personal symbolic language and learn to read their world with their own understanding. Through an investigation into symbols an artist can deepen the meaning in their work and create more unique, intimate and rewarding pieces. But this transcends out art and becomes part of us, our identity and our understanding of the world around us...when we let it.
Listen to this week's episode on Symbolism in the link below
