conceptual notes

Desolate thought contains themes constantly portrayed in my many different works. This piece was originally sketched as the stones by themselves, containing no stairways, openings, or other focal points.

Some stones challenge normal perceptions and clash with the paintings chosen perspective. The large stones atop may sit flush with the ground or sit raised because of the small stones under them in combination with the lack of shadow. No shadows have been attributed anywhere to create further blending of the two different perspectives.

One specific twisted stone, contains two different choices of perspective. Focus on the stairs within the stone, the front twists, becoming parallel with the plane of the ground. This is achieved through the common notion that stairs are restricted as upward and downward paths. Therefore, they have the ability to contribute an influence on the perspective greater than that of a more unfamiliar object. The stone, doesn’t carry with it any pre-conceived understanding or rules, so the stairs become dominant.

Their organic qualities and individuality is shown through the different placement of face, stairs, and other openings throughout the painting, representative of thought possessed by the life-like stones. Like people they also have a mind of their own, acting as they wish, unknowingly alike to one another. Far in the back, a small stone carries on the face of itself, the translucent face of a man. The face in the background makes a final suggestion of the stones as people-like and organic. Each of the different openings represent the idea of an ordered chaos in nature.

artistical notes

• medium: oil on canvas
• dimensions: 16 x 20

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tags: canvas, oil, painting

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