14″ x 14″ – Oil on Linen
A moment of recognition is a color, value and proportional study for a larger work. I am exploring the ideas of identity, time and space. In this piece we have caught a glimpse into the past, present and future. Time is in flux, non-linear and fleeting.
This painting is painted over the top of another painting called Blue. For reasons of posterity, I will keep the original text for blue below as well as the original image in the slide show. Blue was almost a finished piece, but I did not like it and tried to rework and force it to go to a different place. I failed in that attempt, and painted over the piece with the one you see now.
Below is the painting hidden underneath “A Moment of Recognition”
Blue
14″ x 14″
Oil on Linen
Blue is quiet. There is a subtlety of movement in her hair, and though her color tones are saturated and chromatically intense, it brings a calming feel to the work.