The Latin word for chair is cathedra, coming from the Greek kathedra,which gave us the word cathedral. Without saying any more, that is the basis for this painting’s title, Kathedra.
This is a painting I finished several weeks ago which has been leaning against the stones of my studio’s fireplace since then. It is a 24″ by 24″ canvas and it catches my eye on a regular basis. Perhaps it is the fragmented look of the sky with what some people call a stained-glass look.
While I understand people seeing it as looking like stained-glass, I see the lines in the sky as being fractures or seams in the fabric of time and memory. It’s a difficult thing to explain, as are many things that live deep within us, things that make up our inherent system of belief and understanding. Things we instinctively know or believe even though we may not know why or how this even came to be. I’m not talking about religious belief so much as I’m talking about how the unseen forces and energies of the natural world really operate around us, just beyond our perception.
Maybe it is the physics of belief.
That being said, perhaps that is what this represents for me. The seat of belief before a mysterious world that we barely know and can’t even begin to understand. Kathedra…
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I love this. I especially love the phrase “the fabric of time and memory”. Like everyone who writes, I have a book title I carry around in my head, and the phrase “time and memory” is part of it.
So many think of time as constant and uni-directional – the river of time, and so on. In a piece I’ve been working on I mention stepping through time as though through a curtain. Much different.
In any event, when I looked at the painting the first thing that came into my mind was “a patchwork of days”. That’s one fine, evocative sky you have there.
Thanks. I like your phrase, “a patchwork of days”. Mind if I use it sometime?
Heavens, no, I don’t mind! Not as long as you let me use it some time in the future. 🙂
But right now, I don’t have any hot plans for the phrase and would be happy to see it used. It’s a good one.