Here is my second painting post for the topic space time swivel. Number one it is a diptych, mainly because i was struggling with finishing them independently, but when combined i liked it. Number two, I am not sure if either one is finished or if it is finished as a diptych, however i figured that the whole point of this blog thing was to present the readers with an intimate look at how the art is made- so showing work that is incomplete or in process or confused or lost or whatever is a great way to provide a closer look at the process.
So i have been hearing and learning and interested in the Mayan Calender and all the great myth behind it. Like 2012 is the end of the Mayan calender, and what could happen. Apparently the earth is going through a process of time acceleration, which sounds very fascinating, because what does it mean that time is accelerating. It is not hard to imagine, with how fast-paced the world is right now, and how nobody seems to have any time. The mayan calender is claimed by this website, http://www.paulapeterson.com/New_Revelations_Mayan_Calendar.html, to be a calender that sort of tracks the evolution of consciousness, and dec 21 2012 is one of those supposed moments of the evolution of consciousness.
So in this diptych i have used the image of the mayan calender, with a fancy watch with lots of diamonds & bling, with planetary shapes, with the image of Venus from the Birth of Venus by Botticelli, as well as our great modern day hero, Optimus Prime. For me Venus symbolizes creation or birth- which the myth of her birth is very interesting, apparently zues's gizzem landed in the ocean and wallah out comes the most beautiful god riding a seashell to shore. Optimus prime also symbolizes creation (creativity, artmaking, being), because of his ability to transform into things, so transformation is also a topic here. So with the ideas of evolving consciousness, transformation, time acceleration, creation this piece may pose you with the question "What are you doing in this optimal prime moment in the history of the universe?" - I think that will be title of this diptych. I personally am still trying to answer that question myself, (perhaps my answer is that i am creating) so dont expect this painting to provide you with any answers, i am not Jesus I dont save, you must save yourself!
2 comments:
"However, if the goat is stuffed, then this living form is arrested and will resist the inevitable decay and remain unperturbed by the passage of time. The goat is, to borrow from Magritte, "time transfixed."
"Adding to this image is the placement around the goat's middler of the third new element-an old tire. A tire's function is travel. As such, a tire is the symbol of rotational chage, motion, and speed. A real tire that will never roll again encircling a taxidermic goat's middle that will never move or change are two powerful symbols of stopped time."
ART and PHYSICS
Dance...illuminating fabric with light, penetrating light with pain, pain becoming self, self penetrating other, skipping from black to white to black to white to the worst unbearable heap of hell to the radiance of: .
Where the heart always is.
Patrick says:
Jon,
I really enjoy your use of collage. It is understated enough that it becomes your own while simultaneously maintaining that pop feel.
Assimilation of the world around you. Cut and pasted to your own desire. Decorated and personalized by color and texture.
interesting.
I too use collage but not more so for textural effects. I have been sing a lot of maps lately, torn up and woven then painted and destroyed. I still feel like there is a map in the paintng.
Something about assigning a value to an image in my mind will not allow it to be lost, even if the map is unusable for its intended purpose.
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