genesis 1 32x45” oil on linen, as it looked at the end of my painting day today
3:36 PM: an interesting day, it has been. i quickly became bored with the ecole des beaux arts,versialle image i’ve been working from the past few days. a few figures from an image of downtown athens from above showed up, followed by a creekscape.
so right now it’s in flux. but oh, how i love flux! i want to the viewer to be presented with a tumbling image of seemingly unrelated images, which he/she must interpret and enjoy.
thus far, this painting is a clear followup to mosaic 1. whereas mosaic 1 is painted over an ancient roman floor mosaic, with just a few faces remaining visible, this one thus far is painted over the early stages of my interpretation of a photo, admittedly stunning, of reflections in the enormous windows looking into the art school in versailles.
the result, for me, is a much more engaging coming together of the reflected tops of neoclassical buildings in versaille, athenian pedestrians from above and the roaring, spalshing waters and bold rocks of our creeks. a symphony of sorts. we’ll see where it goes next!