Monday, February 28, 2011

A fleeting glance, a scrap of paper and Vincent Van Gogh…

In a fleeting glance, I saw the pose I wanted and picked up the first scrap of paper that came to hand – a white cartridge that is sold in the local supermarket at less than one EC$ for a A1 size sheet.  The six-inch square I used cannot have cost more than five cents.  A sheet of expensive watercolour paper scares me, whereas with this scrap I had nothing to loose.  Ah, you might say, it buckles under a wash and has no texture.  Well, so be it.  I landed my catch!

And if you have difficulty reading between my lines and washes, I side with Van Gogh when he wrote:
“…to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, re-modelings, changes in reality, so that they become, yes, lies if you like – but truer than the literal truth.” 


Let potential artists’ models following my diary be warned: the artist’s vision of beauty is different to that of the glamour photographer, but profound beauty none the less.

2 comments:

  1. It captures the essence of the moment without getting bogged down in the detail.

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  2. Your work shows such movement. Thank you for sharing so much of yourself online.
    It's very inspiring!
    Evelyn in Montreal

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