i like the variety of textures on this girl...in patches, which i also like...patches make me think of things floating in a swamp: a layer of leaves moving together with the broad waves when he comes out of the water. and similarly, moss. blankets of it...in water...patches layered and contrasting next to each other on a dead forest ground.
her collar-looking thing(s)...man made. mossy looking things hanging from him, uniting nature and man-made, just like in the forest how things collect and fade. interesting for me, the layered tiled portions look like old wood roof tiles...it's kind of sad what she's been thru...okay now i'm making stuff up :)
bumps on underside are so unexpectedly round and reflective and to me, gives me the eerie sense that she has been deep down and so far away where i can't fathom.
...which illustrates to me the tragedy of something like this creature being trapped by man (this is just my interpretation). the ridiculousness of man's creations and his ideas...collars and cages...juxt'd with the depths of the true nature of this creature.
you know, the flared out part at the edge of the face seems to be all by itself shape-style wise. the snout kind of relates to it but nothing else on the rest of it's body from the neck down.
which raises the question: respect this concept of a creature as a true living thing that doesn't really give a damn about if it is visually balanced? :) and on that note, i wonder if an art critic were to go out into nature with it's creatures and were tricked/hypnotized/lobotomized (or whatever!) into thinking these were all man made art pieces, will she be able to come up with anything critical to say?
is that a broken horn on the left side of her head? or like filed down by peeps? the more i look at this, the more i feel like i can relate to this creature. we can learn an awful lot from animals. they are survivors and there is always a calm in their eyes which to me relates to an enduring simplicity. much more sane than a human :)
to add to the last paragraph previous, mentioning the eyes: the bleak light-reflective landscape reflects (via light...and minimal style....and lonely horizontal line, sprinkled with some minimal landscape elements that take that horizontal line even further) and echoes of this creature's sober form and eyes...the way light bounces from it to the figure and back etc. also makes me think of the sad lack of sympathy.
so don't go all domesticatin' wild animals, yall, aiight? k, needs to stop looking at this image or i'll write a frickin' novel. in other words, i love this dragon concept very much, andrew.
i like the variety of textures on this girl...in patches, which i also like...patches make me think of things floating in a swamp: a layer of leaves moving together with the broad waves when he comes out of the water. and similarly, moss. blankets of it...in water...patches layered and contrasting next to each other on a dead forest ground.
ReplyDeleteher collar-looking thing(s)...man made. mossy looking things hanging from him, uniting nature and man-made, just like in the forest how things collect and fade. interesting for me, the layered tiled portions look like old wood roof tiles...it's kind of sad what she's been thru...okay now i'm making stuff up :)
bumps on underside are so unexpectedly round and reflective and to me, gives me the eerie sense that she has been deep down and so far away where i can't fathom.
...which illustrates to me the tragedy of something like this creature being trapped by man (this is just my interpretation). the ridiculousness of man's creations and his ideas...collars and cages...juxt'd with the depths of the true nature of this creature.
you know, the flared out part at the edge of the face seems to be all by itself shape-style wise. the snout kind of relates to it but nothing else on the rest of it's body from the neck down.
which raises the question: respect this concept of a creature as a true living thing that doesn't really give a damn about if it is visually balanced? :) and on that note, i wonder if an art critic were to go out into nature with it's creatures and were tricked/hypnotized/lobotomized (or whatever!) into thinking these were all man made art pieces, will she be able to come up with anything critical to say?
is that a broken horn on the left side of her head? or like filed down by peeps? the more i look at this, the more i feel like i can relate to this creature. we can learn an awful lot from animals. they are survivors and there is always a calm in their eyes which to me relates to an enduring simplicity. much more sane than a human :)
to add to the last paragraph previous, mentioning the eyes: the bleak light-reflective landscape reflects (via light...and minimal style....and lonely horizontal line, sprinkled with some minimal landscape elements that take that horizontal line even further) and echoes of this creature's sober form and eyes...the way light bounces from it to the figure and back etc. also makes me think of the sad lack of sympathy.
ReplyDeleteso don't go all domesticatin' wild animals, yall, aiight? k, needs to stop looking at this image or i'll write a frickin' novel. in other words, i love this dragon concept very much, andrew.