Title
Incommensurability of Imagination
Artist
Terrance DePietro
Medium
Painting - Watercolor
Description
From a first impression and reading it is most obvious that the image at hand begs itself of dynamic energy, expressive in gestural lines trailing through the density of the iconic subject at center..
.Not much more is objective of the lines or puddling of pigments. Yet that is also the point that mind begins to apply less directedness to solve the questions raised and steps aside to imagination. Not long after that intuition attempts to bypass the walls of impasse tossed up by the lack of worldly reconciliation, familiarity, so to speak.
The mixture, now in mind, has no comparisons; and other than to themselves, the imagination and the intuition, have no comparable counterparts, yet known - they are in fact 'incommensurable'. And recognizing that principle I suggest that the 'image' (perhaps any creative image) as well has no comparable to measure it to; it too is 'incommensurable'.
Can we, or would we, ever compare one daughter to another? Not seriously! The thought is not only distasteful but mere as impossible...And that attitude I advocate to creative image; especially those consequential of ambiguity (abstractions, expressively rendered).
So what-else presents itself to my first exchange with this image?
For one, the 'seemingly' accidental puddles have symmetry; the symmetry is suggestive of building, mounting; ascending, active of verticality yet met by numerous lines active but descending all of which presents a tension. Said tension is what I refer as dynamic, energizing; add Hermetic if mythology interests...
And in all that seemingly 'static' yet dynamic form, imagination starts to find familiarity in the randomness that pulls sections to themselves. Where with the mind assigns inquisitive attention, sometimes long enough to develop questions; a little longer and imagination starts to respond!
Without being specific to any one area, the posture I have to the image has reflection in the title up to the point that I easily recognize a totem quality, suggestion of partial faces or masks, as well as wildlife; add ritual and mythic involve. Lastly the colors in harmonious paring leave me sympathetic (connected) to the form and its liveliness, abstractness and the narrative we share. 15nov16 -tdp
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