still life with refugees 42x42” oil & collage on linen, as it looked following todays modifications
1:14 PM: once i made the changes to words & worlds yesterday, i felt ready to return to still life with refugees.
rather than enveloping the forms in blue, i used 3 colors: a warm grey, orange and blue, but a different blue than yesterday.
the circular form on the upperleft is a rice filled bowl and derives from a screenshot i made of a photo shot from above, of palestinean refugees cooking dinner in a makeshift setting, using a wood burning fire.
in addition to enlivening the entire painting, the bright colors i introduced today eliminate the unnecessarily complicated elements in the composition and allow the more compelling forms, such as the figure on the right doing a handstand and the guitar player on the upper left, to pop. the guitar player, by the way, is form a tv screenshot i took of the elton john/bernie taupin concert.
at work earlier today