Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Eking Forward (Yes, That's a Word)

I don't typically write about something before it happens, but I'll be in Gainesville this coming Friday setting up for the Sante Fe College Spring Art Festival over the weekend.

Thinking about the limited range of my efforts, we decided that some "spinoffs" as supporting cast to a larger painting would serve to catapult its brethren by collective association. Artist Christopher Still is meticulous in his pre-project studies and I've seen a great niche market he has created by showing and selling these alongside his "master" painting.

Already late into the process, in the short term I simply needed to create smaller, accessible paintings. The buyer of anything large I might sell is already a one-in-one-thousand or greater odd. Smaller paintings are for smaller walls. Let's get real.

So, in a contrived reverse mode, I created alternative spinoff components of a "master." Hung together as a grouping, I feel amplifies the works such that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. That's Aristotle, by the way. I think he was Jackie O's rich husband or something.


 

Here's some iPhone shots of the 8x8-inch spinoffs...





Still figgerin'. Hope to see you there!