THE SELF-ISOLATION RESIDENCY 2nd MARCH 2021: DAY 338

New work in progress. Working title: "A Playful Thing."
Oil paint on plywood block, 150 x 150 mm

19, 20, 21: Finding a reason to paint, in search of the sublime. 2nd March 2021.
Part 39: 'Interpretation, abstraction, illusion.
An Unsettling Appeal: Insearch of the Sublime.

Does the progression and evolution of the geometrical form of the image have a relationship between the contained quantities, volumes and proximities represented and to their rapport to the observer? This is essentially the question which I am pursuing during these notes.

If one considers the basic form of the portrait, leaving the extended context aside for the moment, a portrait usually contains one subject, the sitter, observed in a relatively close-up context. A still-life is usually a collection of subjects or objects which are, on the whole, observed in a slightly expanded field of view and therefore necessitating that they be placed slightly deeper within the pictorial plane. Based on this progression what does this infer to paradigm that we know as the landscape? Well I would maintain that the same progressive notion applies and that although a landscape might traditionally be considered to be one subject, the narrative nature of the landscape is usually constructed of my objects, that although many of them may be considered to be part of the extended context, they do however work in an accord to form the story of the general subject. Of course, via a style of conglomeration, one which is vital to the formation of the landscape subject; it means that the component parts of the vision are once again, through necessity, viewed at a greater distance than we experience with the structure of the still-life.

To be continued...