Cate Blanchett, TimeSpace, Dissolving
Digital painting, 5/15
Cate Blanchett, TimeSpace, Squared
Digital painting, 5/15
Cate Blanchett, TimeSpace, Elvin Queen
Digital painting, 5/15
Cate Blanchett, Close Up
Digital painting, 5/15
Cate Blanchett, Magnetic Eyes
Digital painting, 2013
Cate Blanchett as the Elvin Queen, in Lord of the Rings, knocked my socks off. So ethereal! Airy. Ethereal as in from higher plane of existence. Cate and the movie crew made me FEEL the ethereal plane. Facilitating the experience of being knocked into expanded consciousness is, to me, the highest function of art.
I am subject to alternative states of consciousness. Isn't everyone? No, I guess not. As a child I had "episodes" when I saw ethereal energy. My mind checked out of consensual reality and went to a different place, maybe a holy place? When people around me noticed me "blanking out" they often did something to jerk me back, like swatting me. As if to say, "Get with the program".
So, now and again, art will knock me out. Especially visual art, paintings.
The idea for the primary picture here, "Cate Blanchett, TimeSpace Dissolving" came to me with images of the speed lines of cartoons. I first saw a face, broken up with speed lines. Then I knew to paint it with the face of the Elvin Queen. I downloaded several Blanchette faces to Photoshop. Studied the faces to find the features that best fit my vision. I digitally painted the face and then proceeded to chop and dice it into speed lines. The "dissolving" part is the disassembled face illustrating how time and also the space we inhabit, comes and disappears.
Even spaces change, the space of a moment disappears as slight changes make a different space. Even your bedroom looks a bit different every time that you look at it. The light from windows certainly changes. The wrinkles of the bed linens change. In addition, your perceptions change with changes in your mental state. A happy mood gazes on sunshine, and sunshine lifts your mood to happier. Inversely, blue mood = faded perceptions. Perceptions in the particular miniscule piece of time, are fleeting. Every second reality makes small or large changes, and the previous reality is lost to time. If the experience makes a lasting impression, then you may have the partial recall of the event with memory.
As I was chopping and dicing the beautiful face of Cate Blanchett, I noticed that a four pointed symmetrical image appeared, I liked the eyes forming a square. I played with that direction and created "Cate Blanchett, TimeSpace Squared". To balance the square image in the rectangular frame I copied a square of the center of the image and fitted four of these squares into a red panel.
As I was working, I came across an old digital Blanchett picture, "Cate Blanchett, Magnetic Eyes", created in 2013, and added it to this to the presentation.
Well, I gotta go now. My programing is wearing off. I need to watch the fear tube for a few hours to get with the program.
