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ities of the software and its compositional
possibilities as an integral part of the devel-
opment of her image-making. The comput-
er program is more than a tool. She views it
as a kind of non-thinking collaborator in
her work. “I have a type of dialogue with
the software,” she elaborates, “in the sense
that it responds to my input and I react to
the outcome. But I control the process
every step of the way by selecting the pro-
gram variables. Nevertheless, the results are
often unexpected and exciting.”
The inspiration for her images is
derived from places visited, memories
recalled and dreams envisioned. Her goal is
simple: to communicate the experiences of
being alive through an aesthetically intrigu-
ing visual interpretation. An understanding
of her work is described in her own words:
“My art is about conveying emotion - con-
jured up by memory, lived or dreamed,
consciously experienced or not. Our singu-
lar lives are made up of individual events,
yet bound by a commonality of feeling. In
the community of strangers in which we
often find ourselves living, I aim to estab-
lish a connection with others through the
human capacity to express emotion.”
Ellen’s artwork is sold through several
venues in Greater Vancouver and online at
her website. Prints from her growing body
of work have been exhibited in Los
The Dream that Won’t Go Away - The poetic world of human emotion and the subconscious
are explored in this visual amalgam.