More than two decades ago I lost speech almost entirely from a stroke. I drew and painted through the intense fatigue of impaired verbal brain and slowly my verbal mind shifted locus to a sensory mind. In this new state I lay on a gurney in a radiology lab looking at monitors showing the vessels in my brain in a cerebral vascular angiogram (x-ray). I was drawn into the awesome imagery of my brain’s beauty. The patterns and shapes I saw have become the material from which I make art.

Medical and digital technologies form the basis of my use of the patterns I see in those images. Along with content of drawings, paintings and sometimes photographs these images form the central ideas from which I explore form, color, abstraction, organization and distortion. The layered giclee prints are the product of the spontaneous interaction of planned and unplanned elements in both my life and art. My intent is to push the edges of content and form beyond ordinary perception to engage the viewer in an expansive and playful relationship to the enigmas in what is not seen.


Ruth Codier Resch
escudier@jeffnet.org