Last week I mentioned that I was doing a painting that had something to do with my time on RoR.
The full title is Little Bird, Big Fish, a Bottle of Wine, a Book of 500 Self-Portraits, and a Sea of Yellow.
In one way it is simply what it is and in another way...
...All the items have a symbolic content and in one way it represents a couple of people that I engage with. One thought I had for the title was to include "...and a Speck of Dust". Of course there is no speck of dust on the canvas and one would look in vain for it.
The little glass turquoise bird is Hong. Blue clear glass, ah that is clarity, well-formed, clean edges, and sitting pretty on sea of yellow which represents gold and prosperity.
The bottle of wine is Cordero. The bottle itself is toned way down, the significant part of the bottle is the brilliant red seal; the red represents a passionate romantic spirit.
Both the bird and the red cap are brilliantly reflected in the mirror-like silver cover of a book of 500 Self-Portraits. This means that their self-portraits, their writings, reflect brilliantly who they are.
I, of course, am the big fish. No comment necessary.
If you able to see it, the publisher’s name is readable on the book, Phaidon. This is a quote from it: ""By means of beauty, beautiful things become beautiful." Socrates, Plato, PHAEDO.
The composition was set up exclusive to set off the little bird, bottle cap, and their reflections–indicating a complex inter-weaving of communication and how the big fish is posed to devour all of it.
Lastly, all paintings are spiritual self-portraits of the artists that make them. Hence my spirit is inter-changeable with all the content.
Little Bird, Big Fish, a Bottle of Wine, a Book of 500 Self-Portraits, and a Sea of Yellow
