toiletries
I awoke the other night, actually I never really slept, but I got up to go to the bathroom. I sat down on the toilet with my mid wandering like crazy, contemplating the reason of my insomnia.I was looking at this shelf with stuff on it, clutter, normal bathroom clutter I suppose. There were things of different colors, I don’t know what they were, it is not important. They were shapes, and interesting, very interesting at that moment in time. Normal everyday shit all of the sudden became some intriguing organization of colored shapes. I let my eyes relax, I became aware of the battle for eye dominance, each eye firing off a focused point of view so rapidly that it was as if I was watching an old school style flip book cartoon except this one was made of pages of colored shapes. I was lucid as I could be, I knew what I was looking at but was watching it as I was seeing it, as I was perceiving it. In that process of looking, I no longer had worries. I was entertained by what I was experiencing. Its kind of priceless, being able to look at anything and find that it can become something extraordinary, and all with out the use of any hallucinogenics. That is the beauty of art, of color. It has allowed me to explore experience, mainly through vision but also through more complex psychological levels. Painting has a lot of levels to it but its ability to transcend ordinary experience is really what draws me to it. More and more, color is becoming so important in ways that I cannot explain yet. Color is the intrinsic quality of painting, mixing color, watching color interact, imagining what would happen if I swapped a colored shape for another in a composition, that’s painting, and it is all fed by living, by the intense mind that required complex spatial structures to be tamed. I am thankful for color, what ever it is. its like some strange mathematical system that allows me to think clearly, to structure the busyness of my mind.
Tags: art, painting, perception
February 21st, 2010 at 12:56 pm
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