Title
Suggesting an Imaginal Pageantry
Artist
Terrance DePietro
Medium
Painting - Watercolor
Description
On return from a stay, of several years, in Quebec City, I discovered myself in an intense exchange of letters, with a newly found pen-pal; the ramifications of that exchange are - after twenty years - still being realized...How magical can life be?...
And how magical is it, that a simple staining, with watercolor, on an envelop might suggest, and beg, for some dashes of line...;until, to amazement, the semblance of a celebration: flashed into mind! Envelop art - how unexpected such mere activities might be? And the year was 1997.
Which brings the author, and hoped reader, to be reminded that the mere markings that present themselves to perception, need only be met with an open-mind and a dose of volition, to unfold into aesthetic enjoyment. I have wondered, if art - a solely human embarking - has not suffered beneath conceptual rigors: intentionality, directedness and design? The question's imply seems to suggest that a measure of playfulness - perhaps even too the day-to-day event's non-aesthetically motivated activities and commerce. Commerce, here referring to, communication and involvements...the simple joys and feelings about: the 'eclectic melange' that is in fact Life!
Personally, I can see how such subtleties would be overlooked, since it is our habit to be familiar to scenario after scenario, of storytelling being brought to us as a succinct, highly edited episode, that is 'designed'; to be washed free of 'nuance', et al; and qualified to vignettes that are anything but the reality they purport to be! We have come to accept them as mimicking reality but they are...in no extreme terms: metaphor to 'digital' - where digitizing removes 'seemingly unnecessary' sections, nuance, so to accommodate a 'Computer'!...
But is it really accommodating the human? I might ponder that to the grave; but until that time, the nuance of dangling a doodle to a discerning public is much enjoyed...especially that said public is in reality of imagining most anything in the ambiguity of a playful abstraction...The endless implications of imaginal-image, is well worth a chuckle or two, even three...!
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VIVA Anderson
This is so lovely "playful magic", Terrance.......a celebration that lifts the soul........compliments, fv.........VIVA
Terrance DePietro replied:
Thank you VIVA; 'celebration' - a wonderful word; nice reminder...I see a connection within it and 'integral', which I am presently involved with...thank you so much!