Nov 21, 2006 01:08
I pulled out the ol' acrylic paints for a bit of random play. When I do this its usually because I'm bored and don't want to think about anything very seriously, but I came to a strange realization. As I was painting the situation of a couple of kids being boisterous around their sleeping father plopped into my head without any logical thought that would precede this one. As we know, nothing is truly random and I realized that the reason that situation had surfaced was because I was simulateously painting a excited light greenish yellow glaze over a muted patch of paint that was already dried. When paint is dried and can be painted over again without disturbing the surface you call it "isolated." Strangely I believe that the act of this situation in throwing paint down had somehow inspired an inadvertant analogic situation (the kids and the sleeping dad)
How is this possible?
The isolated muted color is to the loud bright nonisolated colors
as the dormant father is to the boisterous childens
I don't really see why it manifested itself that way. Regardless, it's fun to see how analogies are innately part of the psychological process.
Maybe in some stretch of the imagination those american expressionists that I have such great difficulty understanding are actually writing narrative. No.. probably not.