Alan D
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Posted: Dec. 09 2006, 05:10 |
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OK, some thoughts after several longer looks.
I've never seen anything quite like them before. I mean - obviously lots of surrealist references come to mind because they seem to be originating in the subconscious (and transmitted with great clarity), but these are unique. Those characteristic close-textured-parallel swirling lines seem to sweep around the picture and somehow expose or enfold things along the way - a tendril here, a waterfall there, or a planet, or an eye. And there's this feeling that if I blink or look away, things won't be quite the same when I look back....
The feeling of interwoven, dissolving, or evolving hands in the top half of that second picture is extraordinary - they are so obviously Mike's hands - you've even caught the recognisable texture of his thumb, in among all this movement and change. So the green heart shape (brilliant use of colour, there - it's a heart, and we 'expect' it to be red or at least warm, but it's the complementary of red, which sets up a strange kind of unease because of its cool clear opposition to our expectation) - anyway, the heart form seems to be held close, clutched, kept safe .... Whose heart is that, I wonder? (If it is a heart.)
The waterfall at bottom right reminds me of Tr3sLunas, but I don't think you've played the game, have you Tracey? So it must be coming from somewhere else - if it is a waterfall, for you, of course.
Entirely fascinating, very beautiful, slightly scary, and disturbing because of the way it stirs my own barely recognised neuroses. That's characteristic of the very best surrealist art. Thank you again.
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