Ruth Crist

Imaginating Ruth Crist

Imaginating Words of Art is the product of opposing arts supporting each other while walking the same path of experience, very diverse backgrounds that process the world in surprisingly similar ways, proving that stories can be viewed and art can be read. A conversation between visual and language arts that paints stories and writes pictures to inspire the imagination, this book allows a glimpse between the facade and the scaffold - the interior world of an artist - to show how the events (love, loss, trauma, death, the quest for change, whimsy..) of everyday life might affect the character. The contents of a heart spill onto the pages through the use of pen and pencil, images and imagery, poems, illustration, and prose, giving shape to that which usually remains unsaid.