Graduate Thesis Or Dissertation
Water Over Mountain Public Deposited
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I came back from that trip fueled with creativity. The first thing I saw. and had strongly felt throughout my trip. was my lack of courage. The solving of technical problems had become a diversion from definitive attempts to express my ideas with power. Before I left. I felt it impossible to create a comfortable transition between the surface of illusionistic traditional painting technique that pulls the eye into a virtual deep space. and the volume of the textural pieces that brings the eye to the surface. The suggestion was made that I should drop the idea of incorporating volumetric pieces to my paintings or that I should add them evenly throughout the whole surface. The first suggestion negates my purpose of turning brush strokes into volumetric forms: the second. I've experimented with, yet I didn't feel like abandoning this intriguing surface problem altogether. At this point I had learned that I could manipulate the relief radically with color contrast. either to emphasize it or almost eliminate it. This was an important clue I had overlooked. so I decided I had no more excuses.
In my work the hexagrams are instigators of feelings and the excuse to focus on a particular "scene" of the drama of nature. I want the images to provoke and expand the viewer's imagination not to fix it. The starting point is the I Ching but there is no limit to how a viewer or myself might relate to the piece.
In my painting I have always debated between making abstract images or portraying more figurative recognizable elements. I go back and forth. When the images start feeling too .. ordinary" I go back into abstraction to upset my earthly parameters, I like the psychologically charged mood that recognizable objects and characters create. Adding real people to 1 3 my images has been a great experiment. I like the vitality they bring in, especially in cases in which in combination with the drawing the scenes retain a magical feeling.
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- 1990-12-04
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