6" x 6" oil on canvas
I felt a little better painting this today. I have been a bit of funk, wondering what and why and how to paint. I have been too hard and not enjoying it very much. So with this I jsut tried to be open to creating something fresh and to capture the beauty of the paper petals. Keeping it simple.
Why
do we sacrifice so much energy to our art? Not in order to teach others but to
learn with them what our existence, our organism, our personal and unrepeatable
experience have to give us; to learn to break down the barriers which surround
us and to free ourselves from the breaks which hold us back, from the lies
about ourselves which we manufacture daily for ourselves and for others; to
destroy the limitations caused by our ignorance and lack of courage; in short,
to fill the emptiness in us: to fulfill ourselves. Art is neither a state of
the soul (in the sense of some extraordinary, unpredictable moment of
inspiration) nor a state of man (in the sense of a profession or social
function). Art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to
emerge from darkness into a blaze of light. Grotowsky pages 211 – 218.
