Laundry Day

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Today I woke up and was NOT in the mood to go to drawing, at ALL....but I forced myself and am glad I did. I don’t have any time to waste here, and I really will get everything out of this experience that I put into it! Here are some sketches from drawing today, I think it’s clear that I wasn’t in the mood to draw :P:

Charcoal on paper, 17” x 24”

This afternoon I did my laundry (finally). Not too shabby :P

During my long train ride to Parma this past weekend, I was looking out the train window and saw this bright orange field that had a thick layer of fog lying right above it. I thought the colors were so intense and surprising and it made me think of memory. Some memories lie in the fog, distant and bland, and then all of a sudden the brightest most intense memory will appear out of nowhere – brought on by forces unknown to our consciousness. With this piece I was trying to capture the impression that I had in that moment; the feeling of memory and the mind’s way of showing us little bits of color amidst all the haze of dormant memories.

Il Prato dei Ricordi (The Meadow of Memories), oil on canvas panel, 20” x 8”, 9/13/11

The river that emerges from the fog is time. It’s the stream that feeds the current mind and is constantly flowing and offering the day to day impressions that will eventually be tucked away behind the trees. I was trying to illustrate the idea that even though the memories may have been hidden in our subconcious, this river is always a source that is directly linked to the past.

Even though, at the end of the day, I feel that I really didn’t make anything of value today in the studio....at least I was in the studio, right? I didn’t slack off and I made an effort....that is all I can do.