Impressions of Fallby
NeilComment by zeuszen: At this size, with about 16" viewing distance, the image is too confusing to be stimulating. It is a sensory confusion, a vertigo of palette, form and shape, dimension, medium and order. When I say 'order' I think I am referring to a reality outside of the image, almost.
Many tones and colours (even the primal ones), as are shapes, are muddied - not formed, charged or blown by motion, illuminated or reflected, but muted, bled, dissolved and speckled like diseased oranges in a concrete mixer.
Yes, anyone with an appetite shall have his share of imaginable pinks, rubies and azures, but his imagination needs to be tenacious indeed to wring acorns from this endangered lily-of-the-meadow. I am, at this very moment, considering a golden brick feathered into obscure height by a grass-green geysir which, I am sure, does not exist.
Or am I, possibly, regarding a painting twice my size into which one may vanish - forever? No, not at the expense of sanity and the simple conviction that the parts must cohere before the piece can come together.
If it were a painting, yes, one could ask "Neil, why did you put this blur here and that streak there?" If you had spawned the work from the real, organically, solidly like a good, honest farmer, you would be able to show me, quickly and convincingly - if not I'd rip up your canvas and replace it with new, fresh one.
But it ain't no paintin', it's a photo. It's an accident. I expected an incident. ;-(
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