Acrylic (24 X 32) Inches
Artists Comment:
This painting was started non-objectively using action painting techniques.
I fling and dribble paint, to create patches of overlapping color and lines
until I am satisfied or exhausted. When all of this has dried, I study it,
and to jot-down all the images that I could see emerge. After studying the
possibilities, I select the one that, to me, has good pictorial
dynamics and emotional appeal. In this particular case, I had been under
quite a bit if stress trying to recover from Hurricane Wilma. I was trying
to juggle finances, insurance, clean up and replacement contractors.
Subconsciously, the action phase of the painting produced the suggestion
that allowed an image to surface that perhaps reflected my turmoil at the
time. I have been told that the image looks like me. Hmm, a self portrait.
The more I think about it, all of my pictures are self portraits!
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This is a detail of the left side or the man's face. The main creative part of this painting was in the initial paste-up and the subsequent visualization of the pictorial subject.