Kerri calls them “morsels”: snapshots of a portion of one of my paintings. May You Be Peace is a morsel. I love watching her take the shots. I delight in how she helps me see my work anew. I appreciate how each morsel is a complete work of art in itself.
Shift the focus. Pull in the frame of reference. We live in a world of cameras and microscopes and telescopes and compartments; what we see and believe is very much determined by where we place our focus. Georgia O’Keeffe knew it; she was a master of the close-up.
A few years ago I began taking photographs of my paintings-in-process. The camera helps me sees aspects of the painting that would otherwise remain invisible. It’s odd. I stand before a canvas stapled to the wall and see one thing. I aim a camera at the canvas stapled to the wall and see a wholly different painting. Just imagine the infinite perceptions and perspectives at play in our world!
My photo-painting-practice is a constant reminder that my perspective, my perception is mine alone. You are most certainly looking through a different set of lenses.
Peace, I think, has nothing to do with sameness and everything to do with the celebration of difference, the capacity to help each other see our lives anew.
read Kerri’s thoughts on MAY YOU BE PEACE
May You, 55″ x 36″
may you be peace and may you ©️ 2016, 2015 david robinson & kerri sherwood
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Love the painting. Not so much the sprayed on pants in the merchandise section.
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On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 6:31 AM The Direction of Intention wrote:
> davidrobinsoncreative posted: ” Kerri calls them “morsels”: snapshots of a > portion of one of my paintings. May You Be Peace is a morsel. I love > watching her take the shots. I delight in how she helps me see my work > anew. I appreciate how each morsel is a complete work of art in itse” >