With this one, I started off with a blank canvas(of course), but the finished work shown here, is entirely different from what it was just the nite before last. I finished a painting that I wasn't sure about, if it was finished or a just complete mess. It was very dark & chaotic, and I saw it as a metaphor for my struggles, I mean clear as day; but it showed me winning in this struggle...I was 'stamping' out the enemy. And after a few days my victory was obvious and I was tired of looking at the ugly residue!!!
So I decided I was going to 'stamp' this image out of existence, for real..."I want Beauty", I thought to myself..."I don't need to be reminded of its ugliness, not in the least".
When I started out originally I had no idea what I was going to do, I was practicing a subconscious technique, which obviously worked, "but could it be done again? is this the final product or is there a second part to this interpretive metaphor?"; only one way to find out and I took the hard way out!
I recalled a student of mine asking me "do you ever paint off the top of your head?"; that day I answered with a quick painting(Top of the Floral), off the top of my head...and now this day I realized, after spending many more hours on 'Struggle' that The finished piece now known as 'Heavenly Dutch Windmill' is what was off the top of my head, the 1st ugly one is what got me there, a Metamorphosis if you will. I win!
Very well done, as always.
ReplyDeleteThank you Gregg, way to go at Creativa last night, good to see you get up to the mic!
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