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The 'chrysalis' abstract cubist oil painting series is a further exploration of the 'exovenus' series, specifically to increase the dynamicism of the tecnique. Where the 'exovenus' series took a more stoic and ethereal approach, 'chrysalis' introduces more dramatic value jumps and tonal intensities. The composition of the paintings in 'chrysalis' is much more effective in unifying the desing within the boundaries of the canvas. The basic concept for these oil paintings grew from reasearch into hyperdimensional geometry, specifically the concept of a fourth dimension. After the requisite reading of Flatland, I delved into more scientific and math oriented books on the subject. Interest was sparked by a geometric concept to describe a 4-dimensional sphere by isomorphically transforming a sphere into a flat object so that a 'hyershpere' could be diagrammed. My vague understanding of this concept led to thoughts of the interplay of small elegant curves found in natural objects, these curves then extended as fuller arcs or complete circles. This led then to the thought of not only a 2-dimensional extension of the curves of natural objects, but also that of spheres. I began to envision faces and figures not with the boundaries we encounter with our eyes, but of a multitude of intersecting spheres of varying sizes. Matter was more of a by-product of these intersecting spheres of energy, which extended out into our environment, linking everything to everything. I began to render objects not as the shapes of the boundaries of matter, but by emphasizing and extending the small bits of arcs and curves that combined to make the shapes we see. The color and value placement was employed to create a visually contradictory depth, bring some planes forward and receding others all within the same arc which the eye desires to see on a single plane. This was done with the analytical cubism approach developed by Georges Braque and popularized by Picasso, firmly in mind. Early works were very busy and detailed, attempting to express every nuance of arcs blending into another. As the series was explored, simplicity began to take over as the abstraction developed to allude to this interplay at work rather than to systematically define it. |
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