Dated : 25 April 2020. Amidst a nationwide lockdown in my country . Some of the shareable "lines" from my morning pages:
So if you don't know I have a day job at a major corporate ( surprise , surprise I quite enjoy my job : )) , and as I move from one meeting to another there is one word that seems to surpass all conversations across any department , any skill or any job role.
The word being " SIMPLIFY" .
And like any of us , I have never been shy of using this word in my very complicated so as to say corporate lingo. Off late this word seems to be making its way into my so to say " art life".
Hours and hours on the projects that I work on I keep going back to " simplify" How can I Simplify a face ? a flower? an emotion?
I construct , deconstruct in my head, on my practice pages , in my journals . I may not have that brush in my hand but I keep breaking it down .
And I don't honestly understand my obsession for this , but I think we tend to use this concept across design & business very lightly , as I seem to work on my art with this in mind, I feel simplification is one of the toughest things to achieve in any domain. I mean do you know of Picasso's bull ?
Pablo Picasso created 'Bull' around the Christmas of 1945. 'Bull' is a suite of eleven lithographs that have become a masterclass in how to develop an artwork from the academic to the abstract. In this series of images, all pulled from a single stone, Picasso visually dissects the image of a bull to discover its essential presence through a progressive analysis of its form. Each plate is a successive stage in an investigation to find the absolute 'spirit' of the beast.
So " Simplification" in its entirety seems to be a journey, clearly the masters prove it .
And I seem to be on this one a while now , I am not in any hurry , and below is my latest work on the same thread of thought , from a Landscape series titled " Hidden Landscape." Tell me how do you feel about it ? What do you see?
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