Picture Inventions

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a single brush mark/tone must be worth a word or two. This is a language of its own without words. The painting or drawing process can be developed to draw images out including memories, distant places, intangibles…even subconscious images or invented ones. With combinations of abstracted, remembered, or imagined elements, pictures can include other expressions such as moods or symbols to speak on yet another level – sometimes giving a location added depth or meaning in its interpretation. The result is a piece that is both representational (the illusion of a place/from a distance) and nonrepresentational (brush marks and paint woven into a composition). This can help the imagination by including a sort of dialogue. Finally, the visual effects of line placement, angles, and directions of movement set the work into motion as a flow or life system in the form of the universal language that is art.