Ultimately it’s more satisfying to put up a few images and get a big reaction than to sit on a thousand unseen ones.
In the past year I’ve been exhibiting mostly concrete images of people in situations that convey some type of variable meaning.
I’ve always been attracted to pure abstraction as well, which hardly overlaps the first group of images in any way. Some are distortions of recognizable things, others are non-referential and can only be decoded as patterns of light or a Rorschach blot that can be developed in the mind.
Meanwhile, I’ve stumbled into the meeting place of these two at dusk, where people blur into abstraction.
Added to these topics are images of nature, numbers, parallel lines and other subjects, that I’ve assembled over the years. I find myself poised to depart in several directions, like bees from a hive.
I’m guessing this isn’t a good way to move forward in a coherent direction. I’d like to do more exhibitions, but take greater risks with the imagery.
How can an octopus decide which is the best foot to put forward, without disappearing in a cloud of ink?