1:50 PM: today it was the turn of handstand to join my latest paintings in losing detail and gaining melody. what do i mean by this? just have a look.
rather than being drawn into the figures, your eye now experiences a harmony of forms, colors and light with no beginning, no end; the stady movement of time reflected in these two circus figures is arrested in the midst of a melody. and it is that melody, which each viewer will hear differently that, more than anything, reflects my current state of being.
there’s no short cut to this place. i have to make one of these realist paintings containing figures without looking forward to the moment when the inspiration to transform them comes over me.
tricky.
but, after decades of making realist paintings in greece and during the period following my return to the states, i woke up to my essential artistic self. without making the realist work wrong, and after studying the masters i’ve always learned from, i recognized what it is that those masters i love have in common.
handstand a sit looked at 2pm today, following melodications
