DETAIL of shirareshi
shirareshi at the end of my painting day today
2:28 PM: waiting for my mentee, k., to arrive, I just completed stage 3 of the new shirareshi, which, like the rest of my sound of a flute series, is 78x26”
I lightly painted over what I did over the past 2 days, leaving the underlying layers partially exposed, and worked into it with dark grey (rocks), white (water), green & blue streaks indicating the sky.
I think it’s more a more interesting painting, as well as being more in alignment with the others in the series. see those little blue circles above the rocks? I might add more tomorrow, depending on my mood and how I feel about it in the morning. there’s definitely something i’m moving towards, which all started with my fascination with ike taiga & his wife gyokuran about 10 years ago. it has to do with the naturally abstract nature of the landscape, and introducing the viewer to the notion that abstract is what we see every day.
yesterday, for example, on our trail walk, I experimented with a macro lens for the iPhone which I just got.
an image like the one you see BELOW is perhaps not immediately recognizable as a tree. but when I say it’s a close of of the bark, you get it, and it shifts from an abstract image to something you can get is an extreme close-up of the tree bark.