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Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Creating an Environment


This is what I've been doing. Borrowing the reaction to an old painting
then building an environment to hold my response together...like writing down a child's story. Asking where it happened, who was there and what it looked like.

12 comments:

  1. Patty, oh, EEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
    Patty, oh, Jeez and WOW..
    STUNNING
    and like the other one..the horse....if you ever are
    willing to sell.......i need dibs.
    I want to leave Cloths for Emrie.
    in her Hope Chest.
    I love here how the Water, the Sea, the River is
    dominant in space but the Swimmer, oh, the Swimmer....

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  2. Isn't that swimmer everyone in dreams? I get so much
    from the folk tales, fables and stories. Sometimes I think
    they are the raft which may save us or st least keep us from
    despair. I love that you like this!

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  3. I just looked up the lyrics to Beautiful Dreamer (since I'm hearing impaired, I usually don't "hear" more than a few key words repeated in any song) ... anyway, they seem to fit here

    The watery blues make for a wonder-full collage (something much on my mind of late) ... and the orange-y, rusty bits the perfect counter-point

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    1. I try to follow the colors I find so the original artist
      made that decision but thank you! Dreaming, swimming, running (which I can no longer do but can in my dreams) any way we can not stay stuck in what will change.

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  4. You have most certainly created an environment...an ocean that evokes the supportive, life-giving quality of water and the smoothness of movement within it. Grace is right about the satisfying counterpoint of the warm rusty elements.

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    1. Thank you, Dana. Life giving is true. Our oceans are
      our aunts and our mothers this earth.

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    1. Thank you, Jude. I was considering trying to change
      direction but the symmetry now feels like home so will
      carry on until it doesn't.

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  6. I love the not-quite-perfect symmetry, the swimming/floating/flying girl brings magic....so much space to dream for me the viewer

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  7. You know, I felt she could be flying, too. Not quite symmetry
    may be what I'm going for now. Thank you!

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