I love colors, I love the smell of wet paint and I love the way the colors work when mixing them on the palette. Sometimes when I start a painting, like the blue mountains, I know exactly what I want to paint. I was happy painting the blue mountains, I was inspired by some beautiful poetry and I wanted to paint the feeling of being on the top and not knowing what is underneath.
When the painting was ready, I looked at it and suddenly I felt the painting lacked something, it was too blue. I felt my painting needed a companion, someone by its side to complete, but also to differ. I had a photograph taken from my most favorite place in the world, a beach nearby where I live, but the photograph wasn’t of the sea itself, it was a peace of thin ice covering some rocks and some dead sea weed.
I put up a canvas beside the finished painting and started on the new one. I painted for a while before I realized that there was a reflection of my mountains in the thin ice. This is how I build my life, let the past reflect my future and yet not build a future exactly the same as the past.
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October 21st, 2007 at 2:03 am
Wow! What a gift you have for colors. Reminds me of my friend Louis Escobedo. This is an outstanding work. How long does it take you to conceive of ideas like this?
October 21st, 2007 at 7:15 am
Thank you Jon! It depends, sometimes an idea grows in me for months and sometimes it is born in a moment of inspirtation, like this one. Most ofenly my ideas evolve during the process and the final result isn’t exactly what I started with.
October 21st, 2007 at 2:53 pm
I love this painting! There’s a depth to the colors. and you’re right, the warmth of the color of the new addition makes the whole thing complete. It makes the painting stand out more. You’re truly very talented.
October 21st, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Thank you Marni! I don’t think of me as talented because there is still so much for me to learn, so you saying it made me really happy.