Rain stop play, which gave me time to prepare the web pages so I can load the images direct. Gave me time to think too. Haven't done any painting for a while but as an artist painting portraits, exploring the physical contours of another person in every sense is an adventure of discovery. The way they sit or stand, the way they cross their legs or hold their hands. The slump in their shoulders, the rigidity of their back but, most importantly, their face.
The face holds the detail of every journey it has taken. The mouth telling every word it has spoken and the eyes. The eyes do not and can not keep secrets. The eyes are the traitors to our private world, they tell our deepest secrets, showing the world our hates and loves, our pains and joys. They show if others can trust us, believe in us, if we love them or loathe them and everything in between. BUT, having said all that, do we ever really know people? Do we ever really understand them? Or is our interpretations of what we think we see influenced by the assumptions we made in the first few moments of meeting them?
I like to think I have learned a great deal about people. Particularly, that we never know everything, no matter how intimate the relationship. I know that, no matter how we try to parcel people up and shove them into boxes, they don't really fit a particular box. They are too complex and could fit into many boxes. Is it impossible to know them? To predict their behaviour or reactions? Are we right to judge people on 'what they have done or do?' Should we 'catergorize' people, shoving them into 'boxes' of our making? I believe not. Red Frame is, for me another journey of discovery, not people coming to me for a portrait, me going to them and asking for their portrait. I want to learn some more. I want to know that 'The clothes do not maketh the man'.
1 comments:
Interesting. Have to watch how you develop
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