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.