Germany 1976
Conscious Unravelling
Title: Germany 1976
original 11" x 14"
(122 x 152cm)
acylics on canvas
2016
Germany 1976 is an abstract contemporary painting that is from a memory when I was six years old. The colors in the piece are colors I remember wearing in a two piece dark blue wool dungarees and long sleeve top. The wool outfit was like a jumpsuit in how it fit together and it was striped with bright colors of reds, oranges, yellows and blues. The painting to me is about how I loved how I felt in the outfit which was a typical continental look of a German kid in the 1970s compared to the more subdued colors available in Ireland which was still heavily influennced by the British color pallete back then.
Reflecting on the process of how I create art, I believe that abstract contemporary expressionism is anything but random. Rather is is the expression of felt moments in time that linger in their need to be expressed. These felt moments are expressed in community once created and serve as connections for those to also allow space for what the piece evokes for them. I invite the viewer to experience the piece in a personal way and play a wonder game where the viewer asks the question, what does this piece feel like for me when I look at it. How does my body feel observing it?
I invite you to become part of the unfolding consciousness experience and email me about your insights/thoughts/ideas about what this artwork invokes for you.