I started writing a diatribe this morning about the dangerous world in which we live, given the recent events in the Ukraine and Israel. But I realized there is more than enough talking (well, not really talking in substantive terms but mouths opening and words of some sort coming out) going on from politicos and pundits and little action actually taking place. If you’re reading this, you’re probably fatigued by the whole thing and looking for something to calm you or at least divert your mind from the chaos of the outside world. I know that is a great part of the motivation behind doing what I do, going inward to find a place of peace where I can take shelter.
So, today is a bit of both. It’s a little anomaly of a piece that I am including in my upcoming West End Gallery show, Layers, which opens on July 25th. It’s a small painting, about 5″ by 7″ on paper, that I call Aswirl. It’s inward but it acknowledges the swirling nature of events in the outer world. It is chaotic but finds a harmony in rhythm and color.
This is a piece that I have had in my studio for years and have wanted to show but just never got around to doing so. But I like including at least a couple of small anomalies or oddities in my shows and as I assembled this group of work, this piece began to start popping up. It always seemed to be in sight and though it is much different than almost anything in the show, it still feels like it fits.
Maybe that’s just me.
But I do know that it takes me away from the tensions of the events in the outer world and settles me as I find pattern and motion in the swirls of colors. And if that is its only purpose, or my only purpose in what I do, then that is enough for the moment.
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