Emily Carr exhibition, Dulwich picture gallery, 73,74

There were some energetic paintings of the Canadian rainforest in the Emily Carr exhibition , though I sensed a melancholic dissatisfaction in the work, like Georgia  O'keefe's paintings I can't fathom their littleness, considering the vast topics depicted, and here the vast, invisible vortexes and energy fields she was trying to evoke, if they were men's paintings it's hard not to think the work would have been  painted on  a huge scale, women seem to get wedged into small worlds..the Carvings and masks by indigenous Colombians were very interesting, with shamanistic themes of wise Ravens and soul catching technologies...the work intrigued me most when it had a strong element of trance, as if she'd tapped into a shamanistic altered state....that would make an interesting film...19th century European lady painter entering the Shaman's realm, becoming animal...human ...howling body without organs...
"When you will have made him a body without organs,
then you will have delivered him from all his automatic reactions
and restored him to his true freedom. " Antonin Artaud.