For Maria Pask, drawing and painting provide her with a sense of immediacy that prevents unnecessary mediation. The images that are unleashed in her mind are directly transferred onto canvas, and so is the text, just like a medium intercedes between the spirits and the living.

Words, either uttered or written, can have a tremendous eect on us. They can be weaponised for destructive aims, to manipulate or gaslight. Her drawings are also lled with natural symbols, a word that comes from the Greek and originally meant “casting things together”. Image, words, and symbols are thus knitted together in the work.