"Metastasis/Recrudescence" Painting

In this work, matter and energy spring forth, spread, crystallise... metastasise. After an age, life leaps anew from the dead, frozen, long-forgotten icy core--elements restlessly circling, coming together and coalescing, seeking final form and organisation.... I began this painting back in March 2008 c.e., & I considered it my one real failure from the very first fling of the paint on the canvas. I knew the painting was off from the moment the paint left the brush, & every stroke thereafter just seemed to make it worse until at last I stopped, duly signed & titled it--I hated it, but it was a work of art & a work of art MUST be signed--& put it away under a sheet, thinking then never to pull it out to view again. I'd been toying with the title "Recrudescence" whilst executing the work, but that seemed not to be the message coming through for me at all. Once I stopped & saw what had resulted, I titled it "Metastasis" to reflect the frozen state of action that had appeared only to apparently stop and lead nowhere. Much later, having no other canvas to work with, I pulled it out again, the idea being to finally bring it to life under the original title (which makes absolute sense when you look up the meaning of the word "recrudescence"!). Once again, though, as soon as I started working on it again with that title in mind the painting seemed not to come together. The colours, especially, seemed inappropriate and I kept thinking it should be more sombre (maybe because both elements of the compound title can refer to certain cancers, which is why I used the whitish-grey colours for the original piece in the first place). Anyway, I was feeling rather frustrated with the piece but vowed to keep working at it and eventually--after nearly 2 months of this--when the additional elements I painted finally reached a high enough level of complexity, they were clearly speaking the original title to me. "Recrudescence" is the recurrence of a disease or its symptoms after a period of improvement--or a period of activity after a long period of quiescence--and that is a way (an ironic one, at least) of looking at the process of creation of this painting.

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:48 W x 60 H x 1.5 D in

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