GOUACHES. n#5. Terry praying. 2001.
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My friend Terry is a fervent prayer. I wanted to catch her in a moment of enlightenment. I think it's kind of bowing in the face of total harmony.
Forms and colors, forms, colors. The great harmony is something objective. The great harmony is what all great religions and philosophies of humankind pointed to as being where we come from at birth and where we return at death.
The great harmony just can't be deranged, whatever happens in the cosmos, in our personal lives or in our human societies harmony is always resulting... Disharmony is an impossibility, it is a creation of our egos.
As human creations, paintings are subjective renderings and in consequence they are not automatically harmonious. In a painting of whatever style some objective rules apply to reach harmony and in the end the harmonization of the creator's subjectivity with the objective rules of beauty is what art is all about.