Saturday, March 3, 2007
Calendar Series: 40th Month / Imaginary Brothers with Questions (1989)
This is the first of 30 images painted in gouache and watercolor, using paper from 18 x 24 Arches watercolor blocks, as well as being the first image from 1989.
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Theres' a tremendous sense of isolation here, am.
Though not quite as much despair as in some of your earlier paintings.
Yes. The image came from a photo I was asked to take in Hawaii during 4th of July week in 1970.
In the painting, I added a young man approaching from a distance to help alleviate the isolation of the young man in the foreground.
I remember, after he came home from Vietnam, that he quietly and ruefully said to me one day that he missed having men around who understood how things are.
Wowowow.
You know, I missed the anomie Loren cited -- I felt this was much more a meditative silence.
Interesting how my particular "filter" caused such a different feeling to arise.
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