Title
Taking Moment at Valour's Threshold
Artist
Terrance DePietro
Medium
Painting - Watercolor
Description
From '100 Days of Summer', this image had allure if only in its ambiguous clutter, long before it's paper dried. Far from its cousins of soft harmonies and iconic simplicity, this, less brilliant of charm, held its own voice quiet and back from the crowd. Not that it became lost among the aesthetically crisp others but that it receded from their chatter...
Its first talkativeness arrived only this morning, and by way of describing yet another image, 'Distinct in Presence'. 'How' and from 'where' the implications arrive to mind from images is much a mystery beyond the simplicity of imagination's purposive ambiguities. And it is here, not a task of preaching, but simply testimony, 'suggestive', that much is offered by way of an image's imaginal discourse. If nothing else, they are a respite from a tumultuous state of mind, bombarded with cultural extraversion in assortment...
And more is at hand to the image's imaginal dialogue, for the image acts as a buffer, similar to dreams. This image is buffer in that a lesson was presented in 'Distinct in Presence' that questioned the reservoir of accumulated knowledge still gestating to be understood. And to what forgotten corner had those lessons retreated?
After a short search, that actually provided material that filled-in some blanks, the knowledge reappeared with new implications; reminding how profound imagination can involve itself. And in such 'profound' a 'buffer' is most welcome (anyone who has tasted of introspection might here appreciate my admit).
So now, I will sketch out the first real feelings about the image, titled: 'Taking Moment at Valour's Threshold' - mindful to reserve myself so not to preempt the viewer from coming to a personal interview with the image:
Suggested in the title, from my approach: the image gives simply one [moment] place to rest...
...Presently, it allows the viewer a place to see the threshold of calm; a vantage point, without becoming entangled in the chaos that fills the space (and time). The notion of 'being in, but not being of' is thus offered to mind.
From such a spy-hole the viewer can imagine the angst of complications - knots that must be untied. And it is here that the viewer can pause before delving back into the conversation. Void of the familiar, the only options rest in abstraction; absent of singular scale, shape and form drift together; correspondences change, then reconfigure.
All of this, most assuredly, is unique to each viewer; and if it holds true, I suggest it will reinvent itself through a long association (such has proved the case for more than thirty years with respect to each new series and image).
And in today's review, I somehow fell upon: 'man of valour' which presented Gideon and all his story's implications and attributes. The like took me far beyond my imaginal narrative; and much deeper; I have no reason to think none more will be revealed in time.
The ambiguity of Abstraction is democratically disposed to any viewer that might realize the purposive ambiguity of 'image' - in testimony to imagination's non-discerned abilities...
14nov16 -tdp
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