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Tuesday, August 10, 2010
splatr study 1 2010 (Tharemustbyareesun)
It been approximately 2 years since I produced a painting. Check that. Completed a painting. My brother has been hounding me for a painting I started a year ago which continues to collect dust on my fireplace stoop. Anyway, this piece I am currently calling "Splatr Study 1" or "Tharemustbyareesun". I can go into the psychological underpinnings of this piece but right now I am feeling particularly vulnerable so I will sit on it. I can also go into why I choose to alter spelling in my titles as a reflection of the bastardized English of the texting era or the amalgamation of misspelled English words to look like an interesting foreign or ancient tongue, but maybe that was alreddherekon hysd. As with past pieces, the orientation of the painting is up to the viewer hence why I am posting it x 4.
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I, of course, have a preferred way to hang this piece, but again, it can shift with my mood. So the viewer, too, has this liberty. I initially started this painting as a revisiting of previous techniques but found I was not satisfied with going through the motions. Hence "the splatrs". Now I think I know how Pollock felt. Very exonerating. There is something freeing about throwing paint and letting chance take it's course. There is simple symbolism reflecting personal conversations with self but again it can be a trap to the greater ability of the viewer being able to personalize the piece via his or her own views without getting too entangled in my own interpretation. I hope you like it.
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6 comments:
Vulnerable? or wounded. I like it it is vibrant, shocking, explosive i would hang it bottom left.
Nice work … glad to see that you're painting again.
Thank-you. It feels good touch brush to canvas again.
Looks like a bright horizon for creativity through these windows, lots of blossoms on the trees.
Unfortunately, it is impossible to hang the entire shed on the wall where this piece was created. To appreciate the gestalt of this work, the environment, in my opinion, ought to be hung on the wall as well. The emotion and focus and be seen in each splatter. Through the other side, a representation of an emotional state that includes a combination of anger, resentment, perhaps melancholy. A new emotion called: melansentger.
That was originally going to be my title. You nailed it :)
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