Reality Painting

Okay, this is not reality. It’s just a painting. But with this painting I was trying to create a situation where viewers would feel the urge, even more than usual, to try to figure out what they were facing, to figure out the story. I think what we see as everyday reality is actually a complicated narrative we have applied to phenomena that in and of themselves have no story. We feel that we have a body which we seem somehow to be “inside of” and at the same time which seems to be us. The world and other people seem to be outside us. We seem to have a history with accomplishments and failures and shames. And we seem to be in a specific location and situation and have been in many others and will continue to be in them in which people have been kind to us and wronged us. My point is that if we looked carefully we would see that contained in the awareness of phenomena, none of this is actually present in those phenomena. The stories are just interpretations, even the story that we are some kind of independent being apart and that there is a physical world. It is more like logical deduction that isn’t actually all that logical and which we are not aware that we are making. So I was trying to paint what would be like the basic phenomena so that we can notice our urge to make these stories. In that way, the painting is closer to actual reality than what we think of as real.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:28 W x 24 H x 1 D in

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