Of Wingbones and Talons
2009
Framed Size: 81cms x 63cms Approximate revealed image
size: 54cms x 36.5cms
Mixed Media on heavyweight handmade paper, within white painted timber frame and wide white mount
Sometimes, a title can provide a portal for access to an
idea or an ‘understanding ‘of an artwork, without being overly descriptive or
subjective. Possibly in the viewers mind, moving
the image from perceived abstract towards an abstracted thematic.
This though does not suggest or imply a literal
interpretation, which might be counterproductive.
A painting or construction is an assemblage of individual
component parts, like words in a poem, or sounds in a piece of music, or the
various natural or human-caused elements that make up a landscape painting.
But a landscape does not have to be viewed from a single
fixed viewpoint, it can be explored in multiple ways, as a journey or a memory
for example. The sum of the parts can become more than the whole, the subject
need not be described literally in precise hard-won
detail, but may be suggested as an encompassing, holistic experience, and in
the process becomes new and different.
A flash of beak, or the blur of a wing, a roughly hewn nest or the wayward dynamic of flight, a
momentary streak of light or the nerve-piercing pitch of a bird call, may be
evoked as a mark or a colour - a fragment, indicated, rather than unequivocally
and rigidly delineated – more about feeling and experience than prescription or
description.
George Taylor
December 2023
