still life with refugees, 42x42” oil & collage on linen, as it looked moments ago
2:40 PM: yesterday i went down a rabbit hole and couldn’t get out. so this morning i whited over it, scraped a bit and then painted into the richness that remained.
the only thing i didn’t touch was the guy doing a handstand, who was originally part of the 2020 post Olympics celebration ceremony. but now he’s at the bottom of the composition. to his right, a figure with a red jump rope from the same event, and above him, the now familiar striding plaid shirted figure, the main character in the tv series the good doctor.
the distressed, you might say, composition, with it’s scraped over and blotted areas, gives us enough to comprehend and leaves enough for us to fill in the blanks.
AI would not approve, and would immediately make everthing clearer and sharper, i imagine. it cannot, by it’s very nature, comprehend painterly. but once it gets wind of this, i’m sure it will.