a morsel from Chasing Bubbles
“I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!” ~Mark Twain
Lately, I’ve been hoping that my paintings are really more iconography than autobiography. When I sit and review my pieces I see a festival of introversion and introspection. Lots of figures looking inward. Or down. It is true that I would have made an excellent hermit. Most of the news of the day seems to me like so much noise. I mean that literally. It’s too loud and drives me in search of quiet places. All of this is to note that my autobiography would most certainly be a snore to read so I worry that my paintings – if autobiographical – put people to sleep.
So. The sweet saving grace, the possibility of symbol. A reference to something bigger. Chasing Bubbles. A few years ago at the farmer’s market I saw a young girl racing after a huge bubble. She was laughing with delight in the chase and I took a photo thinking, “This would make a great painting.” And, then, I thought (this is a confession)…a great painting of the human condition. We are bubble-chasers all.
This is the point where Kerri routinely tells me to ‘gear down.’ “You think too much!” she gasps, clutching her now-aching noggin. “Why can’t it just be a painting from something you saw!?” Well, that would make it autobiographical. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
It’s a dilemma. And, there I go again, chasing bubbles.
Chasing Bubbles (in process). It still has a long way to go. Mixed Media 33 x 48IN
read Kerri’s blog post about CHASING BUBBLES
Chasing Bubbles (in process) ©️ 2019 david robinson
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