From Pauline Eaton’s Creativity and the Artistic Experrience: Becoming & Being
One early piece came about because of a wonderful antique pulley and hook, which my
husband found in a bargain-bin at the maritime salvage store. It found a home on the
family room mantel, where it fascinated me, making me wonder what I could do with it
in a painting. The idea came to me of a "sky hook" to symbolize humanity dependent
upon God. I did not want to dangle dozens of bodies from it, so mankind became a
tangled skein of threads to symbolize our interwoven interdependence as well as our
being supported from above. My neighbor, Theo Crabb, was so transported that she
commissioned a smaller version for her home. I simply called the paintings, Mankind I
and Mankind #II. [When Pauline me frame and send it to a national show, the name
became What Tangled Skein]
Here is a longer excerpt from Pauline's Creativy and the Artistic Experience, from which I have taken the description above: Download What Tangled Skein-Man #1 PDF