A Land of Chaos

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Comment by Resident Curator on May 10, 2015 at 5:51pm

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I just came across A Land of Chaos and believe you were extremely successful in your stated goal to use busyness to create compositional movement. The high chroma, saturated color consistent throughout the piece also produces a dynamic equilibrium.   I do think, however, some of the power of the painting lies in the hierarchy of structure created by the larger central shapes and figures in an implied landscape.  The chocolate brown mountains off to the upper right characterize a rough horizon line amid the active elements, grounding them in the space and organizing their otherwise erratic shifts in energy and movement.  Their noticeably darker brown shade also breaks up the harmonized value pattern. The other implied divisions between blue sky, land, and swimming sea at the bottom nicely balance the orchestrated turmoil of the small animated elements. It is a pleasure to get lost in the twisting and writhing visual uproar.  I hope you’ll continue to post new work on the site.