sleep
I have said and thought more about this painting than I could ever remember. It is laden with personal symbolism, maybe burdened by it. I consider this the first painting I made as an adult, though, and I love it dearly. Even though it's busy, I still sense a stillness and reverence that reminds me of the quiet, sacred, enormous thing that inspired me to make it in the first place. oil on canvas 48x30
ice breaking up on the hudson
oil on canvas 24x15
robert
based on a photograph of my brother in in the jungle on the Big Island of Hawaii, reaching up to the aerial root of a banyan tree. I had a lot of fun making this one, and I find its simple message reassuring. oil on canvas 48x30
alchemy
this is an ambitious piece that I think failed. I love parts of it, I love some of the ideas behind it, but I was just not skilled enough at the time to pull it off. Why even include it in this post? I love explaining at length why I do not like things that I do not like. So: I'll be honest and admit that while it is indeed hard to render a laughing face in paint, I did an unusually poor job here and so it looks weird because I ended up wiping the smile right off the face. The fish reflected in the mirror is trite, the weird empty space above the bricks was impossible to fill, and the whole stained glass turning into leaves thing would have been good but it's just poorly rendered. oil on canvas 50x30
I think your criticisms are very subjective. I don't agree with most of them except the laughing face part. But it is telling in its own. Plus this piece is loaded and you are picking it apart in its design elements, but i think it's rendered quite nice its just got baggage.
ReplyDeleteBaggage is not bad either. We just can't carry all of them all the time.
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