It is good to contemplate the activity and ongoing mind/spirit/embodiment gambit while in the rectangle of the ground, Once one is immersed in the process, critical thinking, and activity of the painting practice …. one is able to attend to the vibrations around them and the nature of the material world while absorbed in a meditative focus that is tactile, sensual, plastic, glowing, transient, and full of sound. Some jeweled atmospheric apparitions embodying what’s left of a day in the life with music and color.
Painting is meant to depict depth and light: physical, tactile, and plastic as well as transcendental beauty and earthly beauty. Ancient and historical paintings hold some kind of alchemy like that in them. That is why we keep looking at them and studying them….. contemplating them.
Abstract expressionist contextual attitudes, processes, image/meaning makings where possibly the last of authenticity in the art world (as it is and has developed into over the last 60 years.
not completely true as there are some very perceptive, famous, extraordinary painters around in the world.
SP July 1, 2021
Number 30 (detail) . Watercolor on Arches 140# wc paper, 30” x 22” x .2”, mounted size: 40” x 32” x .25” . 2021 © SPlount.
