And now we move into the new year, though it feels the same as the last year. Will this new year be one of change, of revelatory insights, of new horizons? Will it be a step in the direction of discovering new methods, new shapes, new beauty?
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this is one of my absolute favorites so far. looks like frozen turbulence of smoke or silt, or eons of random geological shifts compressed and flattened into a sheet of rock. it has a fractal kind of beauty, where the same shape looks like both a zoomed-out, aggregate formation and a zoomed-in, intimate detail. the dual-tone simplicity of the tan folds against the brown background make it readable like a rorschach test: it evokes its own unique but infinite set of images and ideas that depend entirely on the viewer's own experiences.
ReplyDeletethe thing in the middle is the perfect centerpiece-- a tighter knot of haphazard lines and forms, the thick dark brown and thin bright yellow popping out in high contrast against the gentler gradations of the background. symbolizing nothing but evoking so much.
that's how i see it anyway...
happy birthday doug, and merry christmas and happy new year! love you
well to be honest, you read it the same way I do...
DeleteBonjour Douglas, je vous souhaite une Bonne Année!
ReplyDeleteand a Happy New year to you!
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