A friend recently said to me, “Your paintings are too detailed. People can’t be bothered looking at details.”The want to institutionalise art like it is a mad thing that needs to be tamed, like a garden that is “over grown”, making it like something that is already known. Art is something that can be shown, but to make it taut and tense, to me, just doesn’t make sense. The age of minimalism has had its daze, let our gardens grow wild and let’s get lost in paintings which have – like the (now forbidden) campfire, that – forever gaze.
Well, it’s good to have an aim. Very recent painting, (working title: Visitors from the sea) still wet and probably needs a bit more detailing, I think. And, while I don’t want people to look directly at my exterior for too long, it gives me pleasure to have others scrutinize my artwork. So please get lost:)
2 comments:
I LOVE this! It's incredible.. I'm a painter myself and I really wish I could put that kind of a feeling into my art. I would like to be more detailed in my work but I get too frustrated :S I personally love the busyness of it. nice work
If you go for a swim you can get this feeling. Just careful of the sharks, their bite isn't nice.
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