tom
nelson
A distorted image can at times convey an intriguing message.
ABOUT TOM:
The eye is a wondrous and complex example of God’s handiwork.
The momentary flash of a sideways glance sometimes arouses the brain to store the subject image somewhere in the inner depth of the consciousness where it can return and haunt the senses over the years to come.
The girl on the train six years ago in tears – the old man in the wheelchair yesterday kissing his dog – the swamp near the Murray river 20 years ago where mosquitos lunched freely. Momentary glimpses all of them – blurry and distorted but nonetheless sealed in the chamber of the mind for ever.
Looking at a blank canvas in the depths of the night can cause the brain to delve into that chamber where these magical and alluring glimpses are sheltering.
And then the brain sends a command to the hand “pick the yellow and mix it with –”
And the eye agrees but commands “some red too?”
And in the early morning light the artist looks at the result and says-----
Medium: oil on canvas, occasionally acrylics
Tags: abstract, expressionism
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