11:12 AM: i got an early start today and got straight to work on kosode. i took out 2 of the figures, including the plaid shirted guy i painted in yesterday afternoon. i added in a guy who’s hard to see, but he’s just to the right of the dancing girl with the checkered shorts. he is inspired by a photo i shot of local workers installing our new windows a few months ago. if you look at the corner of the grey triangle you’ll see him crouching there. as well, to the left of the dancing girl is one of those windows, through which you can see the landscape looking out over the valley.
all that is well and good, but it’s the composition that i’m focused on, which is now doing some interesting, playing on spatial relationships. it causes the eye to jump from one plane to another and may give you the feeling that you just may tumble over the edge and fly down to a lower level. and that’s because there is a lower level! i riffed off the photo of our home’s interior, shot from the upper level. so that’s the origin of the crouching figure, seen from above. the diagonal lines just above the crouching figure are the iron bannisters running along the stairs going up to the top floor.
the yellow vertical stripe on the right has been broken up with a couple of red marks.
so, looking through the window you’re transported 40 miles across the valley to the san juan mountains. shifting your glance just to the right is our interior, seen from above. the seated figure on the lower left is the only one anchored on that yellow ochre triangle of floor , calmly observing it all.
BELOW: yesterdays version is on the left
