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Variations
Bones Laid Out, or The Watchers?
Thinking about … ambiguity
While considering entering a new juried show, I reviewed paintings by the show juror, Michael Paul Miller. His oil paintings are stunning: his subjects are attention getting and his technique is exquisite. All his work shown at Saatchi online is gorgeous & very impressive. The work is described as post-modern realism, dark and often depicting an environmental apocalypse.
I was much intimidated! But I sent the link to a friend, along with the show statement and 3 works I am considering submitting (advice solicited re: frames). This was her response:
The juror’s work does not intrigue me at all. It is so obviously and literally and constantly dark. But I think he would learn from your work. Your work is not propaganda from either the light or the dark side.
Wow, what a compliment! My work does not have the meticulous technique (and never will). But perhaps I don’t need to be intimidated by that fact. Although I am guessing that Miller’s gorgeous paint work, with a clear and assertive message & subject matterwork, will always appeal to more people than my ambiguous messages, my work does allows the viewer room to create an individual interpretation and response.
It is so not easy! I certainly prefer to think that my doubts, agonizing, reworks and difficulties make my art better. And that the end result is worth something to others, not just to me. Self-doubt hovers in the wings every step of the way, and I waver between triumphant satisfaction and complete confusion: do I “waste” my time? Well, no I do please myself, but I want a bit more than that! Click on the image to view all three possible entries for this next juried show.
Coming Soon, I hope
Between work
New lamp, but lit with battery operated LEDs for effect: click to launch slideshow
Using recent print work to make a new lampshade, and modifying a much older most unsatisfactory print is filling my time before a undertake a new larger project. The lampshade is getting more layers of bone, and the green will be toned down quite a bit (but still glow). The red & black print has been distressed with water, touched up with pen & pastel, then scanned and digitally modified.
Scanned pages of the second edition
Bones over bones
This has multiple printing of a poly litho plate over those four linocuts I am currently obsessing with. Not sure if this will resolve into a finished work: I over inked the lino plates, and switched the position of the top two plates, so this may never satisfy! TBD
I am still enjoying this piece, and have added more as shown below: more color fill makes the overlaid bones into a more substantial “body”, and the red-green contrast wakes it up a bit. The second scan is duller than the reality, which has two shades of green.
And I am still working on this:
Sketchbook finishing touches…
And “Tangled Web”: a short movie of Twigs Tangle II
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| Twig Tangles or Tangled Web Movie |
This is a very short “movie” of my second Twigs Tangle drawing from start to finish. Click on the above to get to the movie, and click again to start it!