SHEILA SHOCHET

Each painting, either of carefully and colorfully drawn shapes painted directly onto watercolor paper with a brush, or if they are constructed of bits and pieces of colored, drawn, and cut watercolor-paper shapes which are then glued onto another piece of paper, takes its own time to think through. I assemble, redraw and repaint... Making a collage is the painterly equivalent of writing a poem, if the equivalent of painting a watercolor is writing a short story. The poem and the short story both need the right kind of words, right kind of sounds, color, and nuance, each word, by word, by word... To exchange one piece of cut paper for another in a collage, you must unglue, clean, let dry and then glue again.