“The paintings are scarily gorgeous. Even the virus can inspire beauty.” ~ Doris Brothers

Viral Inspiration (March 2020)

I am at home. I love home. I love time.
I love time at home.
I hate what is happening in the world.
People isolate for protection.
Ascent from blood-filled mountains.
To be together again.
When, who, where, why, how, what world?

Spring Bloodbath (April 2020)

Loss: Destruction, Devastation, Damage, Desolation, Death…
Rescue, Repair, Restore, Rejuvenate, Revitalize, Regenerate, Renew
Found: Unearthed, Uncovered, Discovered, Retrieved, Life…
Resurgence? Remdesiver? Resurrection?

RIVER GUIDE

The viral inspiration.
The bloodbath.
Immersed in primitive expression,
As I enter the water with my river guide.
Images transforming to the moment of my birth-
Survival.
Hugs reaching out through space to me.
From you.
THANK YOU ALL! (zoom group)
~ Leslie Lampe Long

Bio: Stacy A. Berlin, Psy.D., a licensed clinical psychologist and artist, practicing clinical psychology and psychoanalysis in Studio City and West Los Angeles. She is a Faculty Member at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles; instruction on Gender, Sexuality, and Relational Theory for the next academic year. She is a Former Faculty Member at the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University in Los Angeles and at Los Angeles Valley College. She paints feeling states and environmental contexts through portraiture and more recently renewed abstraction. Artistic expression and images are a powerful approach to connect to buried or frozen archaic or dissociated states of being. And, to forget the self. She has exhibited her paintings in several venues and galleries throughout Los Angeles, including her eighth year in the Mirrors of the Mind: The Psychotherapist as Artist, a juried show at Castelli Art Space in Los Angeles.