FLOOD (2000)Acrylic on Canvas - 36” x 48”
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FLOOD (2000)
Acrylic on Canvas - 36” x 48”Faced with the prospect of cancer surgery, I thought that while awash in pain killers I might at least experience some interesting dreams. Instead I found that the medications did exactly the opposite, completely deadening any creative sense I had. 1/4
#fineart #personalvisions #imaginativerealism #fadedstar
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FLOOD (2000)
Acrylic on Canvas - 36” x 48”Faced with the prospect of cancer surgery, I thought that while awash in pain killers I might at least experience some interesting dreams. Instead I found that the medications did exactly the opposite, completely deadening any creative sense I had. 1/4
#fineart #personalvisions #imaginativerealism #fadedstar
My net sum of interesting creative ideas while in the hospital was zero! It taught me a valuable lesson: creativity is linked to my reasoning and thought; interrupt the flow of thought artificially and the creative forces are negated altogether. 2/4
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My net sum of interesting creative ideas while in the hospital was zero! It taught me a valuable lesson: creativity is linked to my reasoning and thought; interrupt the flow of thought artificially and the creative forces are negated altogether. 2/4
Some time afterwards, I did experience some particularly compelling waking dreams. I didn’t know what they were about, but I felt that I had to paint them. 3/4
https://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/flood/
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Some time afterwards, I did experience some particularly compelling waking dreams. I didn’t know what they were about, but I felt that I had to paint them. 3/4
https://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/flood/
EBB and FLOOD were done on faith. It didn’t matter if anyone—even myself—understood what they were about, they had to be made real. 4/4
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EBB and FLOOD were done on faith. It didn’t matter if anyone—even myself—understood what they were about, they had to be made real. 4/4
@MichaelWhelan "Aboutness" is, of course, an interesting question. Canada's own Margaret Atwood said "authors [read 'artists'] are not authorities on their own work", so the onus is on each of us to actively interpret and understand a work, while artists can, of course, go on intuition, logic, purpose, and/or what just feels right. I mean, you couldn't ask Miles what "Kind of Blue" is "about", could you? Now I'm just imagining that answer…
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EBB and FLOOD were done on faith. It didn’t matter if anyone—even myself—understood what they were about, they had to be made real. 4/4
@MichaelWhelan Is there any chance of these showing up in your print shop?
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