Daydream
There are three concepts common to all my work: 1.Contrast 2.Echo 3.The Golden Ratio. These three simple 'Basics' are a distillation of the laws of nature. They provide a framework that relentlessly relates my creative activity back to the etheric forces that shape our sensory world.
For example, "Daydream" began when my eye caught the contrast of certain qualities: light/dark, defined shapes/indistinct shapes, vertical/horizontal, contraction/expansion, etc. The shape of the foreground is an echo of the shape of the ship. Notice how the red of her jacket on the far left 'echos' the red cabin on the stern of the ship. The back of the bench echos the planks of the boardwalk. The bench itself echos the dominant vertical and horizontal compositional theme. Horizontal is sleep and death. Vertical is the awake ego. The foreground portrays the physical/etheric realm. The water [middle ground] represents the astral realm. The light background represents the Spirit realm. The ship represents the soul that carries us back and forth through the astral realm to the physical and spirit worlds. The horizon, the red cabin on the stern of the ship and the tree anchor the composition in the Golden Section.
The more often the '3 Basics' are repeated, the better the composition, and the more likely a story will unfold from it. The shot was intuitive, but afterwards in my studio I chose this shot over others because it combined most beautifully the 'what' and the 'how.' in other words, the technique, medium, composition, colour, etc and the story were in balance.
As a writer conveys their experience through a vocabulary of words, the visual artist uses form, line, colour, light, darkness and the '3 Basics.'
This is how I used the "3 Basics" to tell this story…
A key element in "Daydream" is the tree. Not only is it a beautiful echo of the masts of the ship and the supports for the fence, it is a visual device that suggests a separation between two worlds: the natural material world and the soul/spiritual world. This leads us to the central theme; our feeling of separation from the soul/spiritual and our longing to return to it.
Tightly bounded by a tree and the left edge of the image area, squeezed into their physical bodies, a couple sit on a bench under a tree [green=the dead image of life] gazing toward a ghostly ship and an open sea. The ship carries its passengers across the blue water [Blue=the lustre of the soul] to the spiritual world beyond. [white=the soul image of the spirit] She wears a black coat with red trim. [Black=The spiritual image of death] [Red=The lustre of the living]
Is she removing the coat or is she putting it on? -LY
Daydream
There are three concepts common to all my work: 1.Contrast 2.Echo 3.The Golden Ratio. These three simple 'Basics' are a distillation of the laws of nature. They provide a framework that relentlessly relates my creative activity back to the etheric forces that shape our sensory world.
For example, "Daydream" began when my eye caught the contrast of certain qualities: light/dark, defined shapes/indistinct shapes, vertical/horizontal, contraction/expansion, etc. The shape of the foreground is an echo of the shape of the ship. Notice how the red of her jacket on the far left 'echos' the red cabin on the stern of the ship. The back of the bench echos the planks of the boardwalk. The bench itself echos the dominant vertical and horizontal compositional theme. Horizontal is sleep and death. Vertical is the awake ego. The foreground portrays the physical/etheric realm. The water [middle ground] represents the astral realm. The light background represents the Spirit realm. The ship represents the soul that carries us back and forth through the astral realm to the physical and spirit worlds. The horizon, the red cabin on the stern of the ship and the tree anchor the composition in the Golden Section.
The more often the '3 Basics' are repeated, the better the composition, and the more likely a story will unfold from it. The shot was intuitive, but afterwards in my studio I chose this shot over others because it combined most beautifully the 'what' and the 'how.' in other words, the technique, medium, composition, colour, etc and the story were in balance.
As a writer conveys their experience through a vocabulary of words, the visual artist uses form, line, colour, light, darkness and the '3 Basics.'
This is how I used the "3 Basics" to tell this story…
A key element in "Daydream" is the tree. Not only is it a beautiful echo of the masts of the ship and the supports for the fence, it is a visual device that suggests a separation between two worlds: the natural material world and the soul/spiritual world. This leads us to the central theme; our feeling of separation from the soul/spiritual and our longing to return to it.
Tightly bounded by a tree and the left edge of the image area, squeezed into their physical bodies, a couple sit on a bench under a tree [green=the dead image of life] gazing toward a ghostly ship and an open sea. The ship carries its passengers across the blue water [Blue=the lustre of the soul] to the spiritual world beyond. [white=the soul image of the spirit] She wears a black coat with red trim. [Black=The spiritual image of death] [Red=The lustre of the living]
Is she removing the coat or is she putting it on? -LY