Dance, the Dream, Disappearing Into Each Other, 8.5" x11", watercolour pencil on paper, 2006.
The writing along the blue woman's leg: 'shadow my desire'; up the older woman's arm, 'what rises into the self?'; and curling from thigh to breast to arm, 'repose curls in on itself.'
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The writing along the blue woman's leg: 'shadow my desire'; up the older woman's arm, 'what rises into the self?'; and curling from thigh to breast to arm, 'repose curls in on itself.'
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He wrote in a recent comment, "By the way, my Mother in law thinks my awful painting of those people having sex should be removed from our quest bedroom. I love it by the way and will post it framed soon."
Huh? I overlaid (uh oh, I'm noting my terminology) 3 sketches of the same model from the same lifedrawing class and then colored them so that they seem what I thought was melting into each other (uh oh, terminology again) like a dream, sort of surrealist. All I can see is the figure 8 of the composition, which I like and didn't notice until it was finished. But now that he mentions it...
A prime example of how the artist creates a work but doesn't thereby generate the meaning... (Wayne Booth's Rhetoric of Fiction, but don't ask me for a page reference, it's in storage! Booth says there is a gap between author and text, and between text and audience. I'll say!)
But perhaps unconsciously... (O, roll over Freud, roll over).
It's beautiful and mysterious. To me it suggests life: sex, dreams, love, and our ultimate disappearance into each other and into the universe.
ReplyDeleteSome people just equate nudity with sex and leave it (or join in?) at that. I love the way the image flows, its different layers and depth (the large view is marvelous). If anything, the interpretation is revealing of the interpreter.
ReplyDeleteAnd I was smiling at the "quest" bedroom typo. Here's to exploration! :)
I left a comment here yesterday, but it didn't "take." I remember this drawing and had assumed that this was underlying the other things you spoke of — it's all connected, after all.
ReplyDeletequest bedroom!
Well, perhaps the guest bedroom is not a good place for it. I enjoy reading the comments and love how you surround yourself with beauty. I am trying to do the same.
ReplyDeleteBill, the guest bedroom is a great place for it! I meant this post to be a little jovial, that's all. Honestly, I didn't see what was implied. And I'm not displeased, either- :)
ReplyDeletePatry, e_journeys, and MB, thank you for your gracious responses, as ever, much appreciated.
I liked to think U had a quest bedroom, made for interesting room.
ReplyDeleteSmooch,
The Tart
Oh, lovely art piece!!
Sex and the artist
ReplyDeleteI like this watercolour. The churches, the religions often criticized the sex. But. .le sex is part of our body, a possibility of giving and of receiving. The sex can be an activity sacred.
J'aime cette aquarelle .
Les églises , les religions ont souvent critiqué le sexe .
Mais ..le sexe est une partie de notre corps , une possibilité de donner et de recevoir .
Le sexe peut être une activité sacré.
Cette femme, qui caresse le sexe de l'homme , elle donne et elle reçoit .
ReplyDeleteC'est le coeur des relations humaines .
C'est une belle chose .