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Barbara Sala

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Before emigrating to Canada, Montreal, in 1974, Barbara Sala, born in Germany in 1937, lived in Europe, Africa (Congo), Thailand, the United States and South America (Guyana) and the Caribbean (Dominican Republic). She has worked over the last 30 years to create a career as a painter of naïve images. http://www.barbaranaiveart.com)
and has exposed her works in Canada, the U.S., France, Poland, Spain, Tunisia and Israel. In 2004 she published "Celestine and the Magical Geranium" and in 2006 "Village of the Heart", two children's books, illustrated by the author. In February 2015 she published "INSECTUAL, the Secret of the Black Butterfly" with http://www.Booklocker.com. It is a fictionalized biography which takes place in the Congo, Bavaria a
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Barbara Sala Writing, painting, illustrating, it is all one world to me. If I am blocked somewhere, I move on and do something else. Or I am so obsessed until I un…moreWriting, painting, illustrating, it is all one world to me. If I am blocked somewhere, I move on and do something else. Or I am so obsessed until I unblock. Whenever the unconscious "speaks" I take notice, even if I do not undferstand. If no new idea comes, I let it be. I spent many years in psycho therapy, where I found the art. Before that I was neither a writer or a painter. I WAS BLOCKED. Meditation, exercises and keeping a diary do help. Without diary I wouldn't have been able to write INSECTUAL (less)
Barbara Sala Thank you Ann Diamond for asking a question. I see myself first as a painter. I am very secure concerning my visual expression. It is much more diffic…moreThank you Ann Diamond for asking a question. I see myself first as a painter. I am very secure concerning my visual expression. It is much more difficult to write a book and this was one of my life's challenges. English is my second language, my original language being German. I was lucky. I had an excellent coach/editor and proofreaders.

Did the art provide me with inspiration? Not consciously at that early time (I started writing Insectual in 1986), but I am thinking in images. This is an account of a psychotherapy and while in analysis I discovered the images. I first used crayons and later acrylics on canvas. Very few of these original paintings are described in the book. Today images appear very often together with text. I am now writing a blog where I am analyzing the illustrations of Insectual. (see www.blog.barbaranaiveart.com)

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Insectual: The Secret of th...

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Happy Holidays! Light Light In the mountains at night,No light shines bright,For darkness is the absence of light.

 

 Suddenly, the door of the house opens wide,A stream of light floods into the night,Father stretches his arm out wide and says:“Come back, my child, step into the light,Let darkness slip out of your mind,The stairs are here, the ladder is there,Temples, pyramids and cathedrals,All Read more of this blog post »
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Making Connections: 4078. - INSECTUAL The Secret of the Black Butterfly by Barbara Sala 1 6 Nov 04, 2015 06:51PM  
Franz Kafka
“One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.”
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