New Painting Ideas

[baldchik]

So I am very excited because I got invited to do a painting exhibition at the American Institute of Physics in College Park, MD opening in November. My problem? I sold all but 2 of my paintings from the last series. They say they only need 6 large paintings from me, so I have a few months to make a few more. This is pushing it, but I have been meaning to get motivated back with my machine paintings series for a while now, and this is the perfect impetus, because it would also be a very viable market to sell them, and I need $12,000 for a new car, so yeah, if I sold all 6 I'd have that then. Annyywayyy, last year when I was in Germany before my Uncle Fritz (who is a famous physicist in Germany and also a very accomplished painter) retired, I went to visit where he works at the Max Planck Institute in Greifswald, and he showed me the giant and amazing stellarator (which basically simulates the inside of a star) they were building there. Naturally I pulled out the camera and used the opportunity to take lots of photographs of this machine which I could later make into paintings. The geometry of this device is very very complex, as I believe everything has to be non-planar.. I don't understand geometry and symmetries on this level, obviously... but my dad and my uncle do, and I can just be impressed by the thing visually. I finally got around to editing some of these images, and I need to choose 3 or 4 of the strongest ones to make into large oil paintings (square canvases, around 48"). Please help me out and look through these and let me know which compositions you are most drawn to!

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