What medium do you use? All of the paintings are mixed mediums. The medium is just a tool, like say a brush, but you don’t ask me what kind of brushes I use. Primarily I use any medium that is related to water. I want the painting to dry immediately and I don’t mix colors on my palette. I grab the colors and paint direct. Where does your light come from? Deep inside of me. Whatever light there is I will work with. I am a creator. OK, so you work from the subconscious, right? Wrong, that’s a psychoanalytical term. I work from the unconscious. That’s a spiritual understanding. The art does not come from me, it comes through me. Does it come through anyone? Absolutely, but not if you are not empty and not if you are not in the moment. If you are fragmented, bits and pieces may occasionally get through but no consistency will evolve. * * * I am clean and clear, no fragmentation, empty and I am in the moment. My creations do not come from me. They come through me. The shapes and forms call me like a siren beconing the ship towards the dangerous rocks. I have no fear so I am in the hands of the magical unconscious. As each shape and form comes before me, I am drawn to follow the invisible map, taking me on a journey, say a pathway, beyond logic, beyond reason, into adventure, into the unknown. I am always safe because my mind is not in play, my spirit soars, floating above any obstacles. I am animated and joyous in creation. Max Shertz |
| ABOUT THE PAINTINGS EXCERPTS FROM AN INTERVIEW |
| Max Shertz' "Art of the Unconscious" galleries. A fine art creator in multiple mediums: a painter, a writer, and an art instructor in Manhattan Beach, California. His paintings are in art collections in many museums, as well as sought out by private art collectors. |