Yet, for all that, this represents in my head the road to that part of Kisangani in the Congo where I lived.
Painted ten years after I left -- a sketch in paint -- the trees urban, the rest imagination. Is that allowed?
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Boyoma la Belle
There is no forest portrayed here, but there should be. The hills don't exist, they are a few strokes of the brush. Reality has no fields that are not in a small clearing in the forest invisible to any road.
Yet, for all that, this represents in my head the road to that part of Kisangani in the Congo where I lived.
Yet, for all that, this represents in my head the road to that part of Kisangani in the Congo where I lived.
The landscape features most prominently in the body of my work. It is a landscape of suggestion, rather than a faithful figurative rendering; it is a landscape of fiction and abstraction. Major influences on my work have been the Canadian landscape, the tropical forest of the Congo and the land of the Mediterranean/Middle East. Born in Exeter, Ontario,I studied at the University of Prince Edward Island, McGill University in Montreal and the Université du Québec à Trois Rivières.
I always ask one question; when does the unconventional become so utterly conventional as to become uninteresting - dull in fact? I hope these are not dull whatever else they are. Let me know what you think.
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This reminds me of a quote in the front of the novel I am currently reading, which says: "By drawing a diagram, a ground plan of a house, a street plan to the location of a site, or a topographical map, one draws a 'logical two dimensional picture.' A 'logical picture' differs from a natural or realistic picture in that it rarely looks like the thing it stands for." -Robert Smithson, 'The Collected Writings'......I love this painting, and the fact that it represents the road to your home in the Congo -- more so than any more realistic or logical drawing or photo probably ever would.
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