Thursday, June 23, 2016

Post Vacation

I finished up this painting the day after returning from our vacation in Nova Scotia.

When I look at it now, my focus shifts back and forth repeatedly, sometimes seeing the round white shapes as holes punched through purple-turquoise fabric, and sometimes seeing the round white shapes as planets floating in purple-turquoise outer space.

That figure-ground ambiguity pretty much sums up how I felt upon return from my travels!

Weightless
4x5", acrylic, ink, and wax and oil pastels on manila stock
abstract
2016
[gifted]





6 comments:

Joany Kendra said...

Love how the painting totally reflects your post-vacation dissonance!

dotty seiter: now playing said...

Hi, Joje—thanks! Definitely lots of blurred edges and a disorientation upon return!

Simone said...

I very much like the association with outer space actually! Endless galaxies and so on...

dotty seiter: now playing said...

I like the outer space connection also! I recently listened to some fascinating segments on public radio about dark matter, and elements, and the mysteries of the universe—I feel some of that in this little painting.

Sheila said...

Space...the final frontier!

dotty seiter: now playing said...

And my real challenge: how to create/recognize internal spaciousness—definitely a frontier for me : )

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