Tree of Life (3) Print

This is acrylic on canvas with gold sharpie lines, and small copper dots. The painting is ready to hang. The edge is canvas wrapped and painted black, there is a hanging wire on the back. This painting comes from series "Fabric of life". I really like biomorphic forms, and used to spend a lot of time just looking at macro photography of natural forms, this will give me a feeling of peeking inside of the inner working of nature. Trying to paint them was exciting and challenging. The painting is intentionally decorative, but there is quite a philosophical underlayer. I've painted "Tree of life" idea several times, and even have a bit of writing that goes with this theme. Tree of live. A visual allegory: There is a tree growing in the middle of a beautiful meadow. The sun is shining, the grass is gleaming with the bits of dew, the birds are chirping. There is a slight breeze. The air is fresh. The tree is tall and strong. There are several painters around this meadow, each belonging to a different school of painting: Realist Impressionist Abstract expressionist Cubist Each one of them is painting the same meadow and the same tree in the middle of it. Will the paintings look all the same? What if they decided to paint different parts of the meadow, maybe some would paint the birds and some would paint the grass close-up. Would their painting still be about the same meadow? What if one of the painters feels somewhat depressed and decides to paint the decaying body of the tiny mice hidden by the tall grass? And the other one would just paint the blue sky and the sun? Will their paintings have the same impressions on us? Are they painting different meadows? Is only one painter right? Is anyone wrong? To complicate this allegory even more, let’s introduce musicians into the mix. Each would pick a different “motif” for their musical work. Will their music be the same? All of it was inspired by the same meadow. Is only one musician right? Is anyone wrong? Let’s introduce a dog into the mix… The dog would smell the mice family that lives under the roots of the tree, he would smell the tracks of people and animals that came through the meadow a while ago… If the human eye can not see it, does it mean it does not exist? If the dog can not paint or write music, does this mean we have nothing to learn from it. Now, all of them were trying to show the same meadow. Has the meadow changed because of all these different images? Is anyone right, is anyone wrong? What if some of the painters proclaimed that the only true representation of the whole picture belongs to their school of thought and the rest of them are completely wrong and for their own good have to be converted into “correct” school of painting… What if they started fighting amongst themselves, gathering supporters, and declaring common enemies? Will they burn the meadow? Will the tree and grass grow again? This is what the third rendition of my imaginary Tree of Life looks like. The red branches-leaves give somewhat of a faint reference of many biomorphic forms in nature. The ambiguity is quite intentional, and I hope for different interpretations but the same vibe. I'm calling the style with built in visual ambiguity a Polyanalogism (poly - many).

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:8 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:13.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in

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