Five Corner Room (original)

I titled this one Five Corner Room. I’m playing with the optical illusions of dimensions again here. It’s an idea that satisfies my impossibly thinking mind. You want to know what I think. Well, here it is. I also enjoy seeing landscapes of translucency in my mind. I’m trying to think back to when I first started that idea. It goes back to when I started making plans to paint a painting I titled Paradigm Shift in 2001.

I was very inspired by Paul Klee, the Swiss artist from the 20th century then, as I still am. I’d always liked how he created broad planes of color enclosed by geometric contours of lines of oil from the transfer drawing techniques he used. I made this idea back then called the Word World, a world in which words versed the planes of objects. I thought of it like a panorama through using the third dimension to illustrate the idea. In my mind, words could be placed behind words for associations and layers of awareness and attention.

This work is a continuation with the current theme presented in the blog post previous to this one with the peice therein titled Pythagorean Meme. I mentioned the painting I painted titled Paradigm Shift because this current theme bears a kinship with that earlier expression of mine when I was producing larger works in oil and mixed media on canvas. I plan on posting that painting here on WordPress, and/or my Google blogspot. I found that I posted it to my Twitter account in 2012.

For this recent work, I’ve cut out applying water and rubbing alcohol as washes after drawing images. While I believe that process is an important step to my current artworks, I needed to try cutting that step out in order to simplify things for myself. It’s just a basic concept that the more steps one must take to get a desired result, the more likely frustration can corrupt the process. Assimilating collage work into my illustrations is another step that causes more labor. Nevertheless, the more variables an artist introduces into his or her work processes, the more surprises and new innovations are likely.