BrightEye
I would love to sit for this. I've silently admired your work.
Thank you...
Did you have a question?
Flames, yours will be ready at the latest tomorrow.
I would love to sit for this. I've silently admired your work.
Thank you...
Hi..
Did you have a questio
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Flames, yours will be ready at the latest tomorrow.
Hi BrightEye, thanks so much. I look forward to it. Your work is absolutely beautiful.
For some reason, at first, I didn't connect what you were doing with the Surrealists even though it was clearly indicated in your subject heading! Friends and I get together from time to time to engage in games that the original Surrealists played - Andre Breton and automatic writing, for example, which is what I've done a lot of over the years. Creatively, there's so much to explore and I enjoy writing. Though I've done a lot of figurative painting and drawing, which I also love to do, I hadn't thought to explore automatic drawing as Andre Masson did. I have an extensive library of Surrealist literature and visual art, and it didn't dawn on me to explore the technique, visually??!! Strange. In any case, I've been looking through some of these books...THANK YOU for INSPIRING ME!
I also like automatic writing I can really connect with Breton's poetry. For me the surrealist movement made poetry and visual art really reflect each other's qualities. You can read a surrealist image as poetry, in fact if you try to describe a painting, say Dali's well known Persistence if Memory, it cannot help but sound
like poetry.
Have you seen any of the early surrealist movies? There are some on YouTube... They are still trying to work out today how they achieved some of the effects.
For you I see an amazon warrior resting from battle. She doesn't seem that comfortable and she also seems very restricted in her movements. It took me a while to figure out why that was. One thought I had was that the rest period is not what she wants. she wants action and movement, yet here she is struggling with an enforced rest. The other thing that occurred to me was that she is in the process of taking off her armor, which may also contribute to he sense of temporarily restricted movement. She seems to be contemplating something. The dark areas below her stomach. The image turned out to be quite sensual as well. So maybe she is reflecting on her femininity and/or childbearing.
I don't know if any of this resonates, but I thought the amazon warrior represented you. Are you taking a pause in some area of your life that you have seen as a battle, in a positive or negative way? Perhaps you're thinking of taking time out from work to focus on something more private and personal? Alternatively, the image may be suggesting that you need to take a break in order to recharge your batteries and to see what really matters in your life. You are a fighter but even fighters need to rest sometime.