3:44 PM: i’ve been looking at this collage for weeks, maybe months. it was an experiment i did, taking a watercolor, cutting it into squares and then collaging the squares together, 4 to a row, to make a new image. it sort of worked, but lacked coherence. your eye wanted more direction. so i started working into it, and included the image of a figure i had photographed last year who, with other high school students, was preparing to get into small canoe like crafts and navigate the river in alamosa. . we’ll look at it tonight & see what we think.
watercolor/collage 160 15 x 10.5 “
earlier in the morning, i made a study of a fan painting by 11th c. chinese master, liang kai. it’s titled poet strolling by a marshy bank. he served as a painter-in-attendance at the Southern Song Painting Academy in hangzhou from about 1201-1204.
my study doesn’t do his painting justice, and i may make another one tomorrow. nonetheless, it was a great learning experience. i began to understand why this painting is considered one of the most disorienting compositions in chinese art, challenging our perceptions of reality. i’ll say more about this tomorrow. right now, i want to return to our house and mikela’s arms.