8 whole days without going to the studio- I am missing it so much. Stuck in bed, I have been reading and researching and dangerously discovering retail therapy from a sick bed via a lap top!!! I have a big (6’x6’3”) stretcher sitting in the studio waiting for some canvas so I got on line and ordered some linen (cotton wasn’t wide enough!) … I am looking forward to that arriving.
I have been having some weird dreams and have often felt very strange but during my better times I have been further considering the interpretation and reading of an art work and the artist’s intention. Des Kilfearther http://www.deskilfeather.com/ has also considered this-in his ebook entitled “Introibo ad altare Dei”. His aim is “to explore whether or not it might be possible the unconscious self over-rules artists’ intention?” (Kilfeather,D.P. (2013-11-20) (Kindle Locations 128-129). Central to his book is an examination of Victor Willing’s painting “Night” and asks “Did Willing’s narrative come from his conscious or unconscious? Was his artist’s intention determined or perhaps over-ruled by his unconscious self?”( Ibid. Kindle Location 128-129) This area of enquiry is something I know little of but it seems that these are huge questions to which there may or may not be answers.
Such thoughts are maybe important to consider at some time but for now I am concertrating on painting and formulating ideas about the exhibition.
On Friday I got advice from the GP who suggested I take sea sickness tablets-Have taken a few which seem to have steadied my world a little so I am hoping to get back to the studio in the next day or two.
