Last edited by chinapete; 03-27-2012 at 04:35 AM.
wonderful.. I can hear the distant murmuring of that waterfall... I like the train of thought that inspired this... there is much more to be gained from that line of thinking..
It's very interesting how you direct our thinking to the interpretation of your images. It works very well and I like it. Perhaps, say, you could do us a try test. Placing one of your pictures (a new image) and you would ask us then to give the title of the painting, so you could evaluate our interpretation without being influenced. Just a thought. Let me say that your pictures are very interesting, a kind of makeover that has something refreshing and beautiful.
Wanted to comment on this one in particular. It's an interesting evolution from an Impressionist painting to a close up detail, and then to go closer still. It takes on a little connotation of zooming in on a fractal -- worlds within worlds sort of thing. Explorational. Thoughtful.
There is also a quality that seems to be on your path, that being a sort of fusion of European and Chinese sensibilities into some third thing. It reminds me a little of when the West really began infusing itself with Eastern philosophies etc back in post-WWII times (50s-60s especially), with the Arts and Religions and so on.
An interesting association I get from your chronological path is that you took a picture of a dog in Europe (art) and delved into the picture of it and ended up in China (art), where the original strain of all modern dogs originated. Was that intentional?
Anyway, the monolithic shape you have has an interesting monumental power through the primitive rectangular shape. By inscribing faintly a little waterfall on it feels sculptural to me, as if there is only a little relief on the surface. And dividing up the space at the bottom in an intriguing way with the lighter gray, it's very powerful aesthetically.
There's one more thing that I found in looking at this one that relates. It is a dark bar sitting on a white page here in ArtRage on my monitor. And whether intentional or not, it has taken on the aspect of a change line in an iChing hexagram (albeit needing to be flipped 90 degrees and wanting 5 more lines, although one can look at one only at a time). Still it has that kind of quality for me and alludes to Chinese elements, which you put in through Water.
So if you were going after the unified field essential material, what better paradigm than that from the iChing (which was to have derived from the same original divination source as Chinese calligraphy). And the associations with Kline and Motherwell and that modern art calligraphic mark making is impossible to ignore.
Fascinating. A very cool example of less is more.