I’m on the mend but still some congestion. Took longer than I thought to get better. Anyway,
Thinking about new paintings. Ordered 3, 30″square canvases. Plan to use fractals in some way. I ordered a book on them. I had looked at them superficially for the Infinity painting that I painted over. In thinking about where to go next and the distillation of design into just color and/or shape, I came up against minimalism of the 1960’s. Ellsworth Kelly is a good example. So was painting ‘over’ as many professed? Of course not. Figuration came into the fore once again in painting. I think, tho, fractals are an alternative for me. Question is how to portray them on canvas? Shape into shape into shape into infinity. The shapes repeat smaller and smaller on into infinity like a singularity, perhaps? Thinking of the vastness of space getting bigger and bigger on out into infinity. Physics of the small and large intersecting in infinity? I make no claim to understand the subtleties[and not so subtleties] of particle physics and quantum mechanics as well as the Big Bang and all that followed.[ note that the universe started at a single point in time in big bang theory] Most of what I learned was in reference to the writing of my books. Yes, lots of YouTube videos and reading. Infinity, singularity, connection? I can’t help but feel there is some connection, intersection there, but what?
The past 10 days were a bit of a blow to me. I did a lot of reading. Started the whole Foundation series by Asimov once again. Started Prelude to Foundation and am now reading Foundation and Earth. Both it and Foundation’s Edge is overly dense, and imo, repetitive. Get to the story, will ya? [And yes, I watched the series on Apple+. i like it]. When I wrote my books I focused on the story, the action, adding content to what was necessary to support that story. {fyi, last i checked I sold 3 books thru D2D, lol.}
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