Hello,
I just finished painting the back of these 2 sliding japanese Fusuma doors yesterday.
I started about 3 weeks ago, I usually have no memory of dates but I do remember because my sweet beloved Dad just crossed over on May 14th.
That was a very intense experience, and could be there on his last breath...
Since then I do feel even more connected to him, and I know he is watching over me, sometimes in very evident ways, and sometimes in more humorous and subtle ways. One of them was through the back side of the doors.
So the beginning strokes look like this...first the color...oh! This time, I actually envisionned the painting before I started, which rarely happens, but in the end I always end up painting something else, different from what inspired me in the first place, and that's OK even though I would love to be able to reproduce exactly what it is I grasped in my mind's eye.
Getting astray again...the colors were yellow and golden!
So, the vegetation at the bottom belongs to the original door.
Asking to be guided as usual, and asking Dad...
WHAT DO YOU SEE?
Do you see what I saw? LOL!
2 insectoid beings, the one on the right holding something square to give to the 3rd long, connected to earth ethereal being...ME.
And another one watching from above, reassuring me "we are here and watching over you", just as i have been praying my father to do. tears.
I was amazed at the details of the mouth and even the eye of both of them, had NO Intention to paint anything like it! LOL
In the painting process I came to a few realizations: the purple round artichoke like flowers...could they be halls of records or arks burried in the ground and coming up?
And all the flying brindles, feeling like eartghbeings either ascending or leaving earth?
What is your take on it?
The thing is, the being on the left (supposedly me) seems to be transfigured by light and connected to above and below. Well I am "making this up" now, not during the painting, my main concern being making something gorgeous and somptuous, beautiful and flowery!
So the beings would be completely hidden in the background, inivisible but their presence and blueprint is real, and their observing ME too. That was yesterday.
TODAY I CAME UP WITH ANOTHER REALIZATION!
HOPE YOU WONT GET MORE SCARED THAN YOU ALREADY ARE
I always turn my paintings many many times during the process so that we can have many different views and entry points...and, when turned upside down...
Happy dog carying flowers in its mouth? Canis Minor or Major? LOL door knobs right in the nose!!! well I can't obviously make this up, but they can!!
I'm just laughing to myself when thinking of the person who will soon have these 2 paintings in her apartment, when she starts seeing the dog staring at her in the middle of the night! Or anything else I would have missed...what did YOU notice?
watch the podcast with Julia Balaz and Ursula O'Farell in which I explain how I create and more
Couli
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