Perhaps nobody noticed, an uncharacteristic break in the regular flow of previous blog posts, due to factors too convoluted and numerous to describe. Meanwhile attempting to remedy and reorient, and involving me trying to get a handle on the blog posting process by myself from scratch.
No doubt simple for those with a left brain aptitude who are otherwise familiar with the digital process and i've never claimed to be one of them. On the contrary, i feel to be on the other end of the spectrum, and the logic, if that's what it is, of most things technical has tended to feel 'more than a little alien'. However, in retrospect, i completed the task satisfactorily in one stretch of five hours, with zero instruction or assistance, despite some annoying idiosyncratic self-contradictory anomalies inherent in the robotic system itself.
Then just today, after trying to familiarize with the Blogger process and making slight but slow progress, my current digital camera abruptly ceased to function and not even switch off or on. The third of its kind in a row to do that , in barely more than the same number of times.
However, in the meantime, my mode of painting shifted into a radically different realm of uncharted territory. A natural enough and common occurrence whether temporary or otherwise. Resulting in three paintings, the first called 'Improvisation', and two with the title, 'Night Sky Event', numbers 1 and 2.
Improvisation is the one with the ochre and pink variations on 'cup and ring' semi-circle symbols relating to fertilization from above, containment and gestation, and birth. Happening in an imaginary spatial environment or dimension, but they're all improvised, starting from no fixed concept.
Next came Night Sky Event. No.1. on a slightly larger canvas, but they're all fairly small. A random organic event, across a night sky, and which also went through minute modifications in detail, colour tone (i changed the blue around the forms three times), and in overall feeling till it was integrated, a magical mythic event above a moonlit landscape.
Night Sky Event. No.2. Extending deeper into the mode of blue, with a lunar element shining through. Softening the other elements into a higher vaulted dome of psychic firmament. The colour tones muted and pacified into a vast infinity. Peppered with traces and filaments of webs of stars. The dark earth likewise flecked with distant lights of habitation. Unlike the artificial robotic linear logic, an organic excursion solely and soulfully into the right intuitive realm of refined feeling.
**** ***** **** Martin Rainbowmaker.
