Dori DeCamillis
Paintings
About
My paintings are self-portraits depicting my own mind-states. Each piece is a character personifying my ever-changing thought patterns, habits, and perspectives. These individual pieces of my personality are painted as they come up in my life in an attempt to be more honest with myself and shed an introspective light on my foibles, aspirations, and secrets.
In many cultures and religions around the world, animals have been used to represent ideas, deities and demons, and human traits—a wide range of inanimate phenomenon. Taking cues from these traditions, I came up with characters that represent my inner life.
From the spirit of the paintings grew The Without a Net project, a comprehensive program creative self-reflection. Go to withoutanetblog.com for a complete introduction to the course, workshops, the card deck and the blog.
All Without a Net paintings are 16” x 20”, oil on board. Unless sold, work is available for purchase through Red Dot Gallery.