Title
From the Swirling Question of Distinctions
Artist
Terrance DePietro
Medium
Drawing - Ink
Description
From the 1980s onward, the creative activity that has interested me most might be said to rest at the cusp of art and ontological curiosity. The intentionality was most assuredly to create art and connect into the long chain of image making individuals whom history has treasured and conserved for us. And yet the deeper I stirred into the realm of art, the more it became evident that I was not attempting to 'imitate' what had been done but 'emulate' what wished to become anew...
And it was in the early of the '80s that my curiosity became intrigued with 'form' that might very well be: one thing or yet another, depending on how one perceived it. And depending on how far one would allow the form to: 'announce' the direction it might be cultivated! Nothing short of a dialogue; as if two egos were present and each had a say in the matters that were unfolding in a co-authored event. If it all sounds strange then what developed from those early flights of imagination might well amaze you beyond your own ideas about 'Imagination'!
To arrive into a discussion about 'imagination' and its party to creative activity in this allotted space would be presumptuous. What is more important is that the viewer hears directly from the artist: what the image has suggested to him. And it needs to be reminded that the 'suggestions' have been made over a thirty year period and have now gone well past the original exchange - the questions have only gotten more cultivated and transpersonal.
It is true that the image was authored by my hand; and at the time it seemed to spontaneously grow across the page... It all seemed to happen as if it was all most familiar - but in truth I had never studied or read about the things that are configured and characterized. Even today the similes are remote to subjects of Gnostic, Alchemy, mysticism, early Christian and even Druid symbolism and ritual...
But the viewer does not have to be knowledgeable of any of that! In fact the viewer and the image should accept and introduce themselves in the honesty of exactly who they actually are at that point in time. No guessing, no preempting nor judgments; just 'listening' (perhaps without even words) for the 'possibilities' that stir in mind and where a question presents itself in mind perhaps comparing the thoughts with dictionary or other search technique.
In the case of this presented image, 'From the Swirling Question of Distinctions', from my own perspective: the image has several characters and several more discernible objects; and within the environment of the image there are 'actions' and events taking place... But there is no mimicking of specifics; it is all very much ambiguous, relative and subjective - the movements, meetings and mingling, etc.
First suggested to my mind (at this encounter) is that a 'swirling' movement is unwinding upward and outward from a cluster or transparent orb, filled of living entities. Perhaps personages; then again perhaps animal or spirits; but all, in one way or another 'becoming' who or what they need to be. And at the end of the swirl - now low to the right side - a face on a torso, possibly winged, is face-to-face with more than one more humanly disposed figure. Who is speaking? And who is receiving the message; or might it be an instruction?
Just that much might well occupy me for a week - especially that the image suggests that there is something churning into reality from wherever it is that one's imagination stems from - and many believe that place to be man's vat to knowledge and truth. And Heraclitus might even suggest that: 'it likes to hide'! But it can be found! Finding it is possibly even the 'purposive ambiguity' that eludes human mind and is more often sensed by his intuition...and its arrangement with Imagination...
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