Shear silence, the series: inside the studio
I can discuss this now that they are almost dried.
I told you in the first log last month; concept came from the Old Testament story and the wisdom found in silence. I also went to the Phillips collection that same weekend and juiced up the idea of exploring eternal truths and contemporary subjects.. Two canvases here were done before I touched a brush or tool and before realized what was happening.
One on the bottom, I hoped to catch today’s exhausting competition for your eyeballs, The noisy news feed that we can’t escape, the textured human interest story that actually doesn’t tell anything useful. The “if it bleeds it leads” driven exploitation that drains your soul. And the click bait that fills you up for a few seconds, and then leave you dry.
In this all sound and visual junk food there is nothing to discern. It’noise and no signal. It is the other side of the coin of Shear silence.
The canvas above is also filled, but with pe and quiet.
The a place to rest and listen. . The deafening silence after the passing earthquake, windstorm, and fire. It is the headspace to hear inspired., discerned, or even forgotten wisdom. A place to hear yourself, think, to process everything around you.
Tools, medium, and method:The lower canvas is made of linseed oils and odorless mineral spirits mixed with various colored pigments, Applied using brushes of various sizes.including chip and radiator brushes (to apply the upper right angle on the left). I used the thick 4 inch wide deck brush to create the olive green sonic wave texture in the middle; I also held two trim brushes together, one in black one with red two crate several marks.
Used a six inch straight edge, more than one dirty and previously used unwashed brushes, and used tape to create the left most red open channel. I then dragged that same tape, now wet with red, elsewhere across the right hand side to imply slashes, fresh open wounds,, and minor cutting.
Fun fact: I poured and directed a drip that went down the middle and dropped a large splash of green from about 4 feet above the canvas that splashed across much of the studio. I. taped over a section on the lower right where I added my own fingerprints in red. Above that I did the same, but in black in three other places of the canvas. The light red wash began its own conversation when I tipped and tilted the canvas and it interacted with the lower black.
It was the product of most of my tools was a lot of equipment. Despite this complexity did not take long, time wise. Frankly, this canvas was finished in an afternoon. As far as the second cannabis.
I also today light red wash, which I tipped and tilted which interacted with the lower black when I guided trip on the middle.He was a lot of equipment, but did not take long as this canvas was finished in less than an afternoon.
As for the second canvas, that’s a different story, one that mirrors the message that I was trying to convey. Considered Patience and protected simplicity.
For the first time, I actually painted the edges of the gallery wrapped canvas: the bottom top edge in purple and the east west edges in safety Orange. I was trying to create physical boundaries from the chaos below. With the edges done allowing slight bleeding over the edge. I carefully applied a blue once the risk of muddying was reduced and the interaction wouldn’t create an unintentional green.
It is a place of peace, an isolation chamber buffers that frame and protect… transitions to let you escape and find yourself. It’s a place where your eyes rest and you’re drawn to. I called this canvas “quite wisdom”, but it is the the answer the human soul is longing
for, a “Sheer Silence.”
I didn’t play a specific piece of music, but over the weeks it took I listened to equal amounts of classical and instrumental soundtracks or nothing, rare silence in the studio for the sessions. FWIW: Hans Zimmer or Ennnio Morricone is what I hear in the lower canvas. https://music.amazon.com/albums/B08KBXTZ7X?do=play&trackAsin=B08KBZ6SDK&ts=1788663045&ref=dm_sh_idwpfaovu1BxOxO3h0ZpItSO0
This is today’s clash between Noise that says nothing versus silence that says everything.
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