Home Where It All Begins Print

Home, Where It All Begins Beyond layering new designs on old canvases, this painting was the breakthrough into the more important theme of this series, which is narrative device and symbolic storytelling in drawing age 5-6. My son is an avid reader and drawer, and makes his own comic books, with borders, flip books, people leaping off the pages, dialogue boxes standing in for characters, and even expressive "type"-ography. I have loved the raw and direct approach of drawings by kids at this age (and younger), and have always sought to paint from the place. Its the opposite of a style I don't much appreciate - the type that aims to copy or "repreesent" what is already in front of you. I just don't admire nature more than I admire what people take from it. I see the more raw approach as weighing heavily the importance of speaking directly about what you noticed, the exciting story you want to tell. Not - pardon me - mimicry, adulation, sentimental romantic figurative retch. This underpainting was a textile design that would have been successful but it didn't make the deadline for its textile application, I whipped it into a different direction and that boldness won me an exciting series I had been wanting to do for a while. The series draws inspiration from both the energy in my son's drawings, but more vitally, his ability to make up a story, and then just draw it, little translation needed between the idea and its conception. The energy shines through his pieces, and in this painting, I borrowed from him to get myself started.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:12 W x 9 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:17.25 W x 14.25 H x 1.2 D in

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