Elisabeth Layton, la vida, la enfermedad, la creatividad, las palabras y mucho más

 Elisabeth Layton empezó a dibujar a los 68 años y a través de su arte ella quiso hablar de sí misma, de su vida, de su vejez, de sus depresiones, de sus relaciones, yendo más allá de los estereotipos sociales, hablando de su experiencia, de los distintos momentos de su vida, pero pintándose siempre con la edad que tenía al pintar. Ella ha sentido el arte como una necesidad y un deseo y muchas veces lo acompaña con sus palabras.

 I Am Loved, 1977

"This is her wedding dress...she is holding it up to her." Elizabeth Layton.

 Masks, 1978

"What I had in mind was...all of these emotions you have through your life. There are muscles in your face and each one reacts to every emotion. Say you're real happy for a minute, and you put on that mask and that's going to make an indention in these muscles to a certain extent. I think it's the varous emotions you have had that causes the lines and wrinkles in your face." Elizabeth Layton

I'm into Art Therapy, 1987

 Intensive care room, 1977

"This is the room where my son died. They had all these tubes...you know, terrible. There was always blood coming down. I couldn't draw the face, so I put the pillow there. They gave him four gallons of blood. I had always given blood and I couldn't wait till I could go again and give for somebody else. They wouldn't take me because I was taking medicine for high blood pressure. I felt so helpless." Elizabeth Layton

Mona Lisa, 1978

These are some things that Mona Lisa, when she lived to be an old woman, would have been thinking about.”


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