Today’s internet technology provides individuals with a puzzle of information that leaves each person with the responsibility of piecing together a meaningful worldview. Truth is illusive and the opinions of others often suspect. My paintings reflect this challenge. Different people connect lines and shapes differently, but once one view is shared with someone else, there is no mistaking the picture even when the same lines overlap another picture. Viewers share their vision with me and it adds to my interpretation of particular paintings and expands my view of what art is capable of.
I see blue corn centered in a field of fertile agricultural icons: wheat stalk, bull, rooster, goose and eggs.
What do you see? Why?
I am the owner of two Rayn paintings, a composition entitled "Dancing Light 3", done in the year 2000, and a recent improvisational acrylic painting, "White Horse". Rayn's work which draws on concepts and techniques developed by Wassily Kandinsky, pieces unique objects in subtle and sometimes contrasting colors that harmonize within the composition. The combinations of colors seem to be set apart from the objects themselves, and each viewing reveals new forms and interruptions, as I progressively deepen my connection with the artwork. The overall result creates an appealing effect that resonates with one's inner self. And, after each viewing, I find myself reflecting on that famous remark made by Henry David Thoreau: "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
ReplyDeleteRand Tuttle, St Simons Island, Georgia.