In my current body of work, I am challenging myself to create and understand the polarity of geometric abstract art. Im working to strip imagest down to simple forms and planes, while trying to imbue the feeling of free form painting. the current work comes from a photo I was looking for from I-5 south bound that contains the lines and form I was thinking of and looking for. I found the very image to extract from. Th eimage is of the Broadway exit off of I-5 south. See for yourself. can you see it? Even in these works I'm still working in an abstract maner. I am working with the general form from the image, yet I'm transforming the feeling of the image by creating a generalization in the shapes. The color I''m working through is being created by feeling, and the energy the colors create off of each other. There is and should be a tension in an image to make it interesting. A good painting should keep the viewer in front of it for more than 5 seconds. The viewer should be visually intrigued and question whats before them.
For me the familiarity of what the painting means to me. I see this view of I-5 on a daily basis heading to my partners home in SE. Finding meaning in your art is important i believe.
Im really liking this work in particular. through the process and seeing how it's been working out. I think like many artists we let the work in progress direct itself? Driven by the construct, color and feeling it's having on us there has been a sertain amount of ambiguity to this piece that i really enjoy, and i felt this as it was developing. I came to the conclusion i wanted this piece to have a sense of meaning without saying where it was derived from. there are some very abstract elements to this work as well as representational and it's all been very intensional...as it was deveoping. the image pushes and pulls the view to try and decide what. youre viewing. There are multiple planes at work here and if you pay attention to one the others fall away till you start lookingover the work and the others come into play. There are some aspects i don't understand like why did I develope the threedemntional space in the upper left side? not sure of the meaning, but it's there and adds an element that makes you think as your vision transitions to the flat planes next to it. I feel this is a very intriguing work. It makes the viewer stop and think. Isn't that the point of all art?
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