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Comfort zones

La reverie 1   Oil on canvas   - ~  18" x 30"      2012

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  This is an older piece that I've just recently added glazing to. 

     The series is an exploration of the idea that if McLuhan is correct in  that the medium itself is the primary message and not its content. Then any subject matter should be of similar aesthetic interest as any other painting.  So taking this as a starting point, this minor series involved subject matters that are not of my norm.  The intent being to see if regardless of the subject, if they ended up being just as interesting as what is normally  in my comfort zone as a subject for painting.

       For me the works did hold as much aesthetic interest as any other subject.  Which simply raises for me the further question: Is this a case of the medium of painting being the "message"  or is it that of the medium of the artist being the message?  Which is the real medium here, that of oil painting or that of an artist contemplation?   

    Or is this just conflating the messenger with the message?   Not sure, but it does put the idea of painting genres (in terms of subject) as being hierarchical as being more bogus then actual for me.

(This particular work is inspired from a restricted film.by Redline)
   




 

    I'm in the  process of packing up the studio for a move to a much larger space.  This may mean a few weeks of intermittent posting until the latter part of April.

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