Sunday, August 2, 2015

The work just keep expanding! Summer 2015

I was asked to return to augment the murals I did between 2010-2014.  I will be painting a frieze that is, well, more than 50' wide, plus columns and connecting architectural features (here shown below the red line).  The basic color scheme will remain similar to the larger panels here slightly visible to the extreme right, which is to say vermilion reds at the base to ochres at the level of the upper windows.  The actual figurative imagery is still only known to my unconscious at this point.  Stay tuned!

Saturday, January 17, 2015

Friday, January 16, 2015

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Saturday, January 10, 2015

"Entopic" watercolor series

6 x 9" watercolor from the "Ectopics" series
I created the 24 6" x 9" watercolor series “Entopics” in Barcelona and later Mallorca between December 12, 2014 and January 9th  The work started with assertions about the inner eye, the optical phenomenon of gazing into the perceptual space between the optical cortex and the back of the eyelid.  While reading from Helmoltz and others inspired the work, there was not intent to naturalistically represent what is frankly too ephemeral to depict and also far from my interests.  I was and remain inspired by dynamic passages of colors, floaters, blushes of passing hues, etc. that are neither entirely “out there” or “in here" but rather in-between.  What I find fascinating is the organic geometry that emerges then fades into the background field.  In trying to focus with my eyes closed I realized any attempt to fix the image would be silly as it would be to assign a field a single identity (blue, red, orange, etc) even microsecond by microsecond as the shifts and passages are subject to eye pressure, light and shadow and no doubt bio-chemistry.  In any case, once again nature gives me more interesting imagery than I could ever invent conceptually.  So what do I mean by saying the work is "inspired" by gazing into the entropic field?  I suppose in part it is in noticing the layered complexity, the transient beauty...and trying to translate that into watercolor by characterization, abstraction per se, looking and working with the natural flow of the medium while checking once in a while, eyes closed, in order to see "better".   To see the entire portfolio click here.