Painting Paradigm 1
For the past while, innovation has been pursued as a symbol of excellence in the arts worlds. While the concept of progress in creative endeavors is perceived as a goal unto itself, it is ironically often more valuable to myself as an artist to allow innovation to be a result of a process, and not the process itself. To explain- my presumptions and assumptions of what constitutes painting exist. Often unconsciously they are the foundation upon which I explore and limit my creative expressions. To simply approach painting as a need to do something different won't necessarily add to my understanding of what is painting and my contributions to it. If those presumptions are there as the foundation upon which I paint, it behooves me to first understand that foundation and either modify it or actively paint within those limits.
Often in my art, I try to reveal to myself what my paradigms of painting are. To be honest, that paradigm is rather more complex and expansive then I would have thought at the outset. These painting paradigm blogs are about painting paradigms. Mine to be exact, yet they are likely to find echo in others as well. The idea is to know the parameters under which I constrain my painting, and then afterwards I can then consider their merit to be maintained or not.
So painting paradigm one. (these paradigms could be in any order)
Painting is done on a single surface. Here are some paintings whose ground is on multiple surfaces.
(these works also explore the pixelization of vision, one of technologies impact on society's ways of seeing and knowing the world)
Oil and polymer on multiple surfaces. Varied sizes
( Cooliris required- right click full screen)
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