1991 Singer of the Sun.
I have to say I almost forgot this was the opposite wall juxtaposing the Singer with this more Symbolic representation of the Romance Quest, as described below in more detail.
These paintings were coming out of the Seasonal crosses from 1990.
I had come across Emerson's triad of Fate Freedom and Power. Realized it's connection to Bloom's triad of the Romance quest.
Wallace Stevens had all this contained in his poetry as a diagram of reality. I was reading Notes to a Supreme Fiction and Bloom's commentary on it. His Stevens book is very good. Especially the Preface and Coda.
I started to work in a negative direction, I called the boarded up sublime. The article Bloom wrote on my work took a lot of heat. The Sublime is very complicated and I began to be more interested in an intellectual sublime that was beyond not so much in a mystical or romantic way but just in its complexity.
Thomas Weiskel wrote a very good book explaining this called the Romantic Sublime. He goes as far as describing a Freudian sublime wrought from the Family Romance it all quite thrilling and as I said complex though it becomes simplified as one understands it and sees it's what one thought all along! So I was having alot of my feelings verified.
It was the romantic in my mind. The black and white drawing. The remembered, what was behind.
Not much of this has made it. Alot was destroyed, and others cracked from so much overpainting. They were really about trying to figure something out.
Briefly, the idea of each moment containing the whole of existence in the dream, reach for height, and fall of every idea.
I started to actually see reality in this. It probably was too complex for art-- well Im still on that trail, it getting simpler along the way.
I have to say I almost forgot this was the opposite wall juxtaposing the Singer with this more Symbolic representation of the Romance Quest, as described below in more detail.
These paintings were coming out of the Seasonal crosses from 1990.
I had come across Emerson's triad of Fate Freedom and Power. Realized it's connection to Bloom's triad of the Romance quest.
Wallace Stevens had all this contained in his poetry as a diagram of reality. I was reading Notes to a Supreme Fiction and Bloom's commentary on it. His Stevens book is very good. Especially the Preface and Coda.
I started to work in a negative direction, I called the boarded up sublime. The article Bloom wrote on my work took a lot of heat. The Sublime is very complicated and I began to be more interested in an intellectual sublime that was beyond not so much in a mystical or romantic way but just in its complexity.
Thomas Weiskel wrote a very good book explaining this called the Romantic Sublime. He goes as far as describing a Freudian sublime wrought from the Family Romance it all quite thrilling and as I said complex though it becomes simplified as one understands it and sees it's what one thought all along! So I was having alot of my feelings verified.
It was the romantic in my mind. The black and white drawing. The remembered, what was behind.
Not much of this has made it. Alot was destroyed, and others cracked from so much overpainting. They were really about trying to figure something out.
Briefly, the idea of each moment containing the whole of existence in the dream, reach for height, and fall of every idea.
I started to actually see reality in this. It probably was too complex for art-- well Im still on that trail, it getting simpler along the way.
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