Here you will find a photo essay of my recent visit to the Lambertville, New Jersey studio of Ravenna Taylor . Ravenna also maintains her own blog, Lagoon, that you can visit here . Ravenna Taylor in her studio. Lambertville, NJ 2012. From the artist's statement: Visual sensation stirs my attention to perception and thought; as emotion and thought impact senses and perceptions, my curiosity engages. My imagery derives from such observations, the dovetails and overlaps of lived experience. My paintings chronicle my choices; to choose is to begin, to be alive, to be human. Several of these pieces began as other works I’d thought were finished, but which I turned back into beginnings. I’m calling this assembly of work “re: Vision,” to disclose the revisiting, and refer to my preoccupations with our powers of perception and thought. I compose my pictorial abstractions to excite associations. While nature’s phenomena inf...