Art is a long strange trip. Pay attention because sometimes it doubles back on itself.
Art leapt forward after nearly 50 drawings in the surrealist “Emergent
Image” series. Number 48 had potential to go further....
Investigation was required. A rendering of the original image streamlined its edges and accentuated the lovely central black shape. The new drawing looked like a lovely mid-century ceramic sculpture.
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| Check out those edges! |
This idea ran its course after a few iterations and it was time to return to the series work with so-so results. But the potential of the "Open Vessel" drawing...time to return for another rendering.
(bean emergent image)
Flushing out those curves a little and working out the shading…but so
what? Hmm...What if the edges changed? Another rendering. Even worse.
(first two rendering)
But then that wrinkle pattern itself was more interesting than the original shape. What if the veins were included? Oh YES.
What if the image were mirrored like a Rorschach print? Aha.
From nearly 4 dozen random automatic styled drawings into meticulously
rendered, highly ordered, intentional imagery.
Some with veins.
Ooh, surprise! Relates to artwork from the early 1980’s, who would suspect?
Persistent aesthetic!
