THE SELF-ISOLATION RESIDENCY 11th MARCH 2021: DAY 347

New work in progress (detail). Working title: "Fragented Vision."
Oil paint on canvas, 610 x 610 mm.

19, 20, 21: Finding a reason to paint, in search of the sublime. 11th March 2021.
Part 43: 'Interpretation, abstraction, illusion.
An Unsettling Appeal: Insearch of the Sublime.

If the relative ratios of the both the portrait and landscape genres are defined by the content of their pictorial planes, alongside the observers perceived proximity to these contents, how does, or perhaps should, this same line of reasoning influence the proportions of a still-life study? We have already established the there are systematic relationships present as regards to both the relative virtual proximities to each genre’s subject matter and to their comparative, quantitative, content; the fewer the images subject parts the closer we appear to encounter them, the larger the quantity the greater our virtual distance from them. To continue this line of reasoning in simple terms, if a portrait containing the image a single subject is a certain height, say 90cm, but is in turn 60cm wide and a landscape containing many component parts is the same 90cm high but is say 150cm wide; how wide might a still-life composition representing several relevant subjects be if it is also 90cm high?

To be continued...