When I was making this piece, my mind was extremely busy.
1. I wanted to try something more abstract with collage. I wanted to be able to paint on my mat board freely without thinking "does this look like a boat? Does that look like the post?" I just wanted to dance (so to speak) with the flow without thinking too much...
2. At the same time, too many other things in real life also were fighting over their territories in my head. Options in life sometimes can be so messy and muddy...
3. And two images came to mind in turns: one is a fully packed dock resting in the sunset I saw in Olympia. The pinkish sunset glow on the packed boats hitting the rush hours before. One is the big orange sun in Northwest last week. I tried to capture it with my camera, four attempts, but I was either too late or too slow or too clumpsy...
So there you go, the dock, the sun, the pink, the heat, the business and the silence... all in one.
As for this piece, this is how I look at it. Don't ask what's this or what's that, just step back, try to only look at what most prominent is to you in the picture, and let the rest take care of itself. This way, a beautiful and peaceful image shall merge out of the chaos. (See it?)
And that's good enough for now.
1. I wanted to try something more abstract with collage. I wanted to be able to paint on my mat board freely without thinking "does this look like a boat? Does that look like the post?" I just wanted to dance (so to speak) with the flow without thinking too much...
2. At the same time, too many other things in real life also were fighting over their territories in my head. Options in life sometimes can be so messy and muddy...
3. And two images came to mind in turns: one is a fully packed dock resting in the sunset I saw in Olympia. The pinkish sunset glow on the packed boats hitting the rush hours before. One is the big orange sun in Northwest last week. I tried to capture it with my camera, four attempts, but I was either too late or too slow or too clumpsy...
So there you go, the dock, the sun, the pink, the heat, the business and the silence... all in one.
As for this piece, this is how I look at it. Don't ask what's this or what's that, just step back, try to only look at what most prominent is to you in the picture, and let the rest take care of itself. This way, a beautiful and peaceful image shall merge out of the chaos. (See it?)
And that's good enough for now.
This feels cool to me, not hot. But I LOVE it. Very fractal, like an impression in the heart.
ReplyDeleteIt's strange. Now, when I see it back there comes more rest in this piece, I think I was a bit to close to it. From a distance it works a bit less busy.
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