13 September, 2014//:
@Ten, Klein, here and now, signing on...
For the past weeks, I have been in high
emotions with everything that is happening in my life. My patience and tenacity
really is being tested, and this time, I want to remain quiet for I always
would remind myself that only his very words and their corresponding effect will
hurt a man come soon. Then, just so to divert my attention, I decided to go back
to my childhood love. PAINTING.
Before designing those architecture stuffs or anything that has never been seen,
I would love to do portraits of anything that I usually see. Before I get into creating,
I was once a patron of many creations, divine or human it may be. But I started
to realize to pursue arts and painting lately as I get even more exposed to
others’ works as most of my interior projects would, more often than not,
suggest piece/s to glitter my interior’s spark.
In painting, I would perhaps label my
style and preference as, technically if there is such, minimalism. A single
object to me would translate thousands of stories to tell. Just like an MMK
title. =) So for my first object to paint about, I can’t think of any better
option than this.
“The face is the mirror of the mind,
and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.”
-St. Jerome
EYES. There is
nothing in this world that could best define me than my eyes. As Samuel Richardson would describe it, “Where words are restrained, the
eyes often talk a great deal”. In my renewal to another great love, I would
like to say as much but my canvass has its dimensions, my paint has its color range,
my brush has its number of stokes. Limited.
I can only express as much. With this thought, I knew I could extend my
expression through this EYE. This very eye. I do not claim that this portray my
own. I am not sure if it looks exactly as mine, but one thing I am confident is
that this eye has my soul.
Just as mentioned above, I have my stirred
emotions in the moment I did this artwork. In doing this I would have spot of
thought of Stanislaw Jerzy Lec’s quote: “Not because it is dark and our eyes cannot
see anything, there really something that exist. You can close your eyes to
reality but not to memories.” I, like anyone in this world, am hurt in one or
two aspects of my life. So to deal with it, I would rather ignore this and try
to look at other aspects so I can still root a trace of happiness in my coming
days. Yet there is just a question with me now, do we really move forward if we
just try to forget our pain without settling them? Are we really ready to move
ahead when things has not been forgiven yet? Or that is just really how it is?
I know I am making a deep blunt sense. But whatever it is that bothers me, I am
calmed as I have poured my feelings in the artwork and surprisingly, after I
finished it, I agreed to Marcel Proust in his quote of: “The only
real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having
new eyes.”
“Sometimes you can't see yourself
clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.”
- Ellen DeGeneres
We live in a wonderful world that is full
of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can
have if only we seek them with our eyes open. Since we cannot change reality,
let us change the eyes which see reality. Similar to Macklemore & Lewis
line, “Change the game, don’t let the game change you.” Sometimes things may
not go smoothly on our way. Then we might opt to try other approach. Let us not
lose a sight of our dream, of our happiness, of our success. Just as I hold on
to this renewed love that is something of great colors to me. I do not lose
track from believing that this first painting is in any form an art. I hope you
appreciate it. J
Klein, here and now, signing off://
#thesoulinmyeye #eyes #art #artistry #artwork #abstractobject
#painting #love #theeffessignature #behindthecanvass
