Eidetics & Art
Eidetic imagery and art naturally fit
together, both being visual, somatic, and evocative. In using eidetics,
you step into your imagination, seeing and feeling the thickness,
fullness, and intimacy of the images in your mind’s eye. Rather than
looking from the outside, you flow inside, engulfed while also
expansive, into your “home,” your resting place, your being, and you
breathe life into those images with a pencil, a paint brush, or your
hands, and an awe comes through you.
Eidetic imagery restores the creative
self, releasing blocks of our developmental, historical, societal, or
cultural issues that keep us, both children and adults, from our full
potentials. These issues narrow our perceptions into fixed memory
images. An example of how our fixed memory images affect our perception
is a simple drawing exercise. Draw a person by copying a line drawing of
the person. Quite often this drawing does not come out as well as you
would like. But if you turn the line drawing upside down, you are no
longer using your fixed perception, and generally, this drawing comes
out better than the initial drawing because your perception shifted from
fixed to unfixed. And just as a red filter on a camera lens obscures red
objects in a photograph, developmental and historical filters change
perceptions of events in our memories. Our mind’s eye receives more
detail than we realize in the form of eidetic images, images untainted
by fixed or filtered perceptions of memory.
Through the use of eidetic imagery
with drawing and design exercises, plus playing with different mediums,
such as acrylics, oils, pastels, and clay, you discover drawing a
straight line, or not drawing a straight line, releases the artist
potential within you. Like the sun emanates light and warmth, natural
life energy, we, once released from fixation, dynamically radiate our
true potentials, our life energy, into our paintings, our endeavors, and
our Universe.
Charla's Biography:
Charla Bruce’s diverse art is created
in alkyd, acrylic, oil pastels, lithograph crayon, or mixed media on
canvas, paper, and walls (murals). She attended the University of Texas
as an art major in the mid-1970s but did not pursue an art career until
1992. In 1997, her work was shown in the nationally juried New Orleans
Art Association 18th Exhibition and in the 4th Annual Show of the Art
League of Houston. In 2000, Charla was the Featured Artist of the 6th
Annual Houston Women’s Festival. She has shown in the Downtown Stomp
Around (2001, 2002) and in every Warehouse ArtCrawl since 2001, as well
as other Houston Women’s Festivals in retrospective shows. In 2006, she
had a one-woman show at the Preston Wood Gallery during filming for a
segment on HGTV. In addition, in 2008, she participated with other
artists in three separate shows at Elder Street Gallery. Her artwork is
in private collections throughout the United States. Charla received her
certification in eidetic imagery in January 2008 in the pursuit of
opening up her own imagination more and the imaginations of others, no
matter their present age.