Then I wondered, Isn't every painting a transition piece? Isn't every brushstroke one of flux, capturing movement from one moment to the next? Doesn't every painting reflect transition, a journey?
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Friday, February 28, 2020
Transition
I first thought of the two-page spread below as transition pieces, each piece with one foot planted in my time in Virginia this winter and the other foot planted in my first two weeks back at home in Massachusetts.
Then I wondered, Isn't every painting a transition piece? Isn't every brushstroke one of flux, capturing movement from one moment to the next? Doesn't every painting reflect transition, a journey?
Then I wondered, Isn't every painting a transition piece? Isn't every brushstroke one of flux, capturing movement from one moment to the next? Doesn't every painting reflect transition, a journey?
8 comments:
Such a powerful word! Describes painting life and all in between!
My eye seems to go more to the abstract green painting which seems more in the "transition" state. Always wonder were this piece may be going or not!
Thanks for your reflections, Carol. Fun to know that your eye goes more to the abstract! Last time this two-page spread made an appearance was here .
Breathtaking work, Dotty, once again... both your words and artwork always bring me to new places. These February Vermont eyes were mesmerized by your floral display. Although I don't post that often, know that I get a gift every time I check in. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I love the flowers, but of course, right? Looks like it's sitting at the front door, ready to greet friends and family, and me :) LOL :) The abstract, I have to say, does hold me longer. I have to investigate. Textures, and numbers, and letters, and ... what is that over there!? :) LOL
And your words... How true, and OH, how we try to fool ourselves that it's not. LOL :)
Carolyn, thank you, thank you, thank you for your checking in and for your comments which (a) always lift me and (b) always tickle the curious observer in me who sits back and says, hmm, I wonder what it was that prompted a comment on this particular day? I'm grateful that both my words and artwork bring you to new places—hot diggity!
Of course, the flowers, Sheila! But I love that, like Carol, the abstract holds you longer. Music to the ears of someone who came to abstraction way late in life but is now enthralled by it. I'm uplifted knowing that the abstract piece calls you to investigation—score! And, yes, OH how we try to fool ourselves with illusions of stability and predictability : )
Transition pieces...yes. Your post has me pondering how every moment is a transition to the next one, and how elusive that exquisite present, that space between then and now, can be!
kinda wild, isn't it? most of the time, my awareness = not so much. but, increasingly, whoa!
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