I pulled out the Wrecked Tangles (Encircled) T series while actually looking for some entirely different pictures I’d created previously several months ago, and saw some interesting things I felt drawn to manipulate and reconfigure. I was actually looking for The Structure of Passion for which I just posted here tonight as well.
The circular shapes were actually punched out pieces of different colored paper from a hole-puncher. I bought a package of them at one of those cheap party-ware stores you see in town every so often.
With this particular series–which was just newly created this evening–I selected one of the circles and enlarged it. I changed its color so that it would attract more attention as well. Then I copied it and put it in other places as well, and, again, I changed their colors as well.
I put a cap on one of those building looking structures lining the bottom half of the picture plane, and fancied that it looked like a child’s depiction of a city. I was also thinking of Paul Klee, and how he often made images in an analogous style such as this.
First, I thought of titling the image Klee’s Buildings on the Moon, or something like that. But then I thought this would be too un-original. Then I thought of how Klee’s name can be associated with the earth’s clay.
In a rudimentary and primitive way of thinking, planets can be seen as balls of clay floating in space, so I imagined playful childlike structures on unknown moons in other solar systems drawn by an alien child while looking at a nighttime sky.
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