9/4/2021 painting/collage 26x62”
11:25 AM: from september 4-10, I created 9/4/2021 painting/collage. as always, I documented my process. if you were to go back and look at my blog posts during that period, you would see the stages of development.
but today, on this cloudy, rainy, windy day in october, I decided to post images of stages in the entire process of development.
it all began with the leaves you see in the first photo. they were observed & photographed on one of our august/september trail walks up the creek. the dancing figure with the checkered shorts is from a photo I shot from our tv screen of the lively celebrations at the end of the tokyo olympics, as are the dancing male figure with the blue top and, on the far right, the woman with the pony tail.
locating them in the midst of the foliage sets them apart from the specifics of the olympic games and catapults them into a fantasy world of lush leaves. I attach no meaning to this, other than the joy and enthusiasm reflected in their movements. all this simply served as vehicles for my delight in moving my brush over the canvas and playing with space.
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