Hello Troebia,
Thanks for posting these!
Imaginary Village - I thought of negative and positive space right away. I see the village, but also maybe some faces.
Like a Rorschach test. Did you model this after anything. or just conjured it up?
Orange grove - nice muted complementary colors
Palermo street view - I see the people! The barest of strokes, and there they are!
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Thanks SD for your thoughts. The strong negative/positive way of painting is called notan, a Japanese term that literally means “dark-light”. It can be very suggestive because the brain always looks for patterns. I hadn't thought of it myself but now that you mention it, the "houses" might as well be heads in a crowd. It makes me want to experiment more with this ambiguity.
Why do we see and interpret certain figures often very similarly, but sometimes differently because of our life experiences? We could dive into a rabbit hole of Jung's archetypes and the collective unconscious, and maybe come out at the other end somewhere close to David Chalmers' latest theories of consciousness which are just three Wikipedia clicks away. It's way above my head, but the mysterious phenomena are plainly there for us to experience.
The inspiration for the "houses" you liked was in the background of the orange grove where I sat down to paint. Just for fun, here's a photo of the scene. I usually take a snap with my phone of whatever I sketch:
If we convert the photo to only two tones (either black or white), here's what the houses look like. It's half way to abstraction and with a bit of practice one can learn to "see" this without the help of a camera:
And if we zoom in only on the trees, other patterns appear. Maybe fish? Cars?
Why do we see and interpret certain figures often very similarly, but sometimes differently because of our life experiences? We could dive into a rabbit hole of Jung's archetypes and the collective unconscious, and maybe come out at the other end somewhere close to David Chalmers' latest theories of consciousness which are just three Wikipedia clicks away. It's way above my head, but the mysterious phenomena are plainly there for us to experience.
The inspiration for the "houses" you liked was in the background of the orange grove where I sat down to paint. Just for fun, here's a photo of the scene. I usually take a snap with my phone of whatever I sketch:
If we convert the photo to only two tones (either black or white), here's what the houses look like. It's half way to abstraction and with a bit of practice one can learn to "see" this without the help of a camera:
And if we zoom in only on the trees, other patterns appear. Maybe fish? Cars?