The Culmination of Dissolvement

By the time I completed this work I had already done a few works with organic debris mixed with acrylic compound, however with this one I decided to add some pigment into the mixture. In doing this I had the opportunity to vary the color of the mixture in order to add a distinct gestural element into what was a very textural and topographic surface.

The variance was in making a final and partial pass in a slightly whiter tint of the same orange color. This subtle contrast allowed the brighter color below to peer through which gave depth in an emblem like manner while still being integrated into the overall texture. This gave the work a certain presence which I always strive for.

On focusing onto this presence I found it growing when I became more aware of the many separate elements that made up the texture of the work. The more distinct I saw the various details the more the presence came forward. The more the parts and pieces began to separate and differentiate the more I could see the face of the whole. It was exciting to able to see this growing in two directions, a greater experience of the whole in complete relation to a view of increasingly distinct parts. The vision became more and more palpable, like a living breathing presence, the more and more it disintegrated.

Eventually the experience reached a point where I could no longer see deeper in the two directions, the parts and the whole, and the presence receded from prominence where it was just previously. However the notion of this paradox has stayed with me, of seeing the face of the whole only through seeing the infinite facets of its infinitely dividable parts, and has become part my personal mythology in my furthering exploration.

Unfortunately the tinted color I mixed became just bit more dark when it dried and that subtle level of contrast was lost. I never saw this again in this work quite the same.