EL TEATRO de SUENOS
Over the years I've done a lot of different kinds of art, but the things I
keep coming back to are oil paints and beatiful women. Oil paints
because they lend themselves to the dark and dreamy look I like,
because they are sensuous to work with, and, perhaps most
importantly, because they are so easy and forgiving. Watercolor and
airbrush, on the other extreme, require so much planning, and are so
unforgiving of error, that it's hard to imagine anyone but a brain
surgeon or an accountant doing them. Hats off to you anal-retentive
masochists out there who manage to make something worth looking
at this way- your suffering is an inspiration to us all. For myself,
however, I prefer to take the easy way- I have enough suffering
already.
As for beautiful women- well, what else is there, really? Aside from
the innate aesthetic qualities, which are justification enough for
painting them, they're just so gosh-darn symbolic. The female form is
an amazingly powerful and versatile tool for conveying all sorts of
meaning. Not that it can't be done with the male- it's just harder, and
we've already established that I like to make things easier on myself.
Or, maybe it's just that given the choice between hanging out all day
with naked women or naked men...
I think of dreaming and painting as pretty similar activities, though
painting takes more work and smells worse. Our dreams explore our
desires and our fears, they help us draw meaning out of what we see
all around us, and they help us shape a vision of what we want reality
to be. Painting is very much about all these things, or can be. It's a
place to comment on what we see, and show what we want to see.
It's also a place to confront what we fear and why we fear it. It's too
much to ask that something I paint should make you break into a cold
sweat or jump up screaming, but if an image unsettles you, starts
some little cog turning inside, or just blurs the line between familiar
categories a little bit, I'm doing my job.
keep coming back to are oil paints and beatiful women. Oil paints
because they lend themselves to the dark and dreamy look I like,
because they are sensuous to work with, and, perhaps most
importantly, because they are so easy and forgiving. Watercolor and
airbrush, on the other extreme, require so much planning, and are so
unforgiving of error, that it's hard to imagine anyone but a brain
surgeon or an accountant doing them. Hats off to you anal-retentive
masochists out there who manage to make something worth looking
at this way- your suffering is an inspiration to us all. For myself,
however, I prefer to take the easy way- I have enough suffering
already.
As for beautiful women- well, what else is there, really? Aside from
the innate aesthetic qualities, which are justification enough for
painting them, they're just so gosh-darn symbolic. The female form is
an amazingly powerful and versatile tool for conveying all sorts of
meaning. Not that it can't be done with the male- it's just harder, and
we've already established that I like to make things easier on myself.
Or, maybe it's just that given the choice between hanging out all day
with naked women or naked men...
I think of dreaming and painting as pretty similar activities, though
painting takes more work and smells worse. Our dreams explore our
desires and our fears, they help us draw meaning out of what we see
all around us, and they help us shape a vision of what we want reality
to be. Painting is very much about all these things, or can be. It's a
place to comment on what we see, and show what we want to see.
It's also a place to confront what we fear and why we fear it. It's too
much to ask that something I paint should make you break into a cold
sweat or jump up screaming, but if an image unsettles you, starts
some little cog turning inside, or just blurs the line between familiar
categories a little bit, I'm doing my job.
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All the world's a stage, as
somebody once said, and
pretty much everyone is
sleepwalking through
their part. It's not so easy
to wake people up, but at
least I can talk to them in
their dreams.
somebody once said, and
pretty much everyone is
sleepwalking through
their part. It's not so easy
to wake people up, but at
least I can talk to them in
their dreams.
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