Posted by Jai Narayan on August 5, 2004, at 15:41:18
In reply to Re: poem ... Meet Me Under the Blue Whale, 1998 » Jai Narayan, posted by Atticus on August 5, 2004, at 15:20:43
> Summing up my paintings is a little more difficult, because if I could have verbalized those emotions, I would have written poems instead of setting up my easel and stretching a canvas, which is a hell of lot more work. Generally speaking, they're heavily influenced by abstract expressionism vaguely similar in palette and mark-making system to Willem de Kooning's pieces, but they're also imbued with a lot of symbol systems -- especially Pacific Northwest Indian and Australian Aboriginal pictographs. They have a surreal, psychedelic, mythic quality to them. All of which probably sounds like gibberish to you. But the bottom line is, when I look at a lot of them now, I can clearly see the swirling, almost chaotic presence of an unquiet mind.
***It doesn't sound like gibberish because I come from a long line of artists.
I got my BFA in the Portland Museum Art school in Or.
My mother was very versatile in her expressions through art. I have a few of her paintings in my room. They are a mixture of impressionists and Cezanne. She had a curiously delicate touch. (The reason I say curiously delicate is because she used to poke and hit us with her restless hands.)
My sisters are all painters and writers as well.So I may indeed understand your descriptions.
My paintings are for me as well.
Jai Narayan
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