I wanted to create a finer line to access more detail in this painting but I’m not sure that this came to fruition. It was for this reason, given the nature of the medium, that larger panels were used in the following paintings.
Added to this was the fact that my darling wife did not want me to ‘put a price’ on ‘Boo’s’ footprints that are easily visible in the ‘sky’ of the painting – obviously she was much younger (and naughtier) then! I could have washed them off before they set , but I didn’t and to this day I do not know why – perhaps chance and fate even plays a part in even sending the message – who will ever know?
The notion of an exchange really means that for something freely given that there is a reciprocal meeting of the wills and that the exchange is beneficial to each side.
What would happen though if the exchange was one sided and one side received MORE than the other? This in fact is what I have set out to find in this painting. In it’s purest sense nature is fair in it’s balance. As the new entity is breaking out (birth) is it only taking a fair share of what it needs to exist on it’s own? PERHAPS! With the onset of outside values and pressures as only man can exert them it is easy to see how balance becomes a thing of the past and why destruction of natural forms is guaranteed.
You see, man can never imitate nature and is greedy by definition and fact. This destruction of balance then is what led to the disturbing and cathartic images that I attempt to portray in the next painting.
