There was an apartment in which our family lived, in Davis California. Shortly after we have moved in, the area of the tub and shower enclosure had a leak and had to be replaced. The replacement surface was wall board with an abstract neutral design which was haunting to me. I could find angular faces in the design, profiles and facial features in various positions and I sketched the impressions as closely as possible. With Picasso in mind, I arranged those positive and negative spaces, lines, planes and angles into an uninspiring finished product which has long since been painted over, relegated to the grave yard of unsuccessful attempts at creating artful masterpieces.A recent painting session was going swimmingly, having nothing to do with inspiration from Picasso. I was working on a type of object art which may or may not work. The design on the cover of this looseleaf notebook reminded me of the faces on the shower wall, the creature emerging out of what is supposed to look like a rugged shale-type rock face. You can decide if
this is Picasso-esque or merely kindergarten monster art, maybe sort of Harry Potter Monster Book-ish.I noticed that my paint pallette had some interesting shapes which were easy to identify in shapes you may or may not concur with - maybe a gruesome Raggedy Ann and a blue gorilla.
After all, art is in the eye of the beholder. If you are a Kindergartner, you may say, "sure that looks like a very short alligator.... Maybe it's a green crow laying an already fried egg. 
3 comments:
looks like you were having fun! :)
I liked seeing your paintings and your creative interpretations of them. Especially the green fried-egg-laying cow. :)
Isn't it interesting how the mind works. I look at the picture and see something until I'm told to see something else, then I can see the other object. Very interesting.
Obviously COWS don't lay eggs, let alone already fried eggs. And furthermore, everyone knows that cows are not green, but they have been seen as purple in one book we had. AND besides that I would be suspicious of anything laid on the ground by a cow, no matter what color it is.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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