The Crow And The Girl (2022) Schilderij door Aeon

Oil on canvas, 80x100cm (31.5x39.4in), 2022.

Based on my beach sketches, this piece continues my recent "Intelligent Water" series. It is evident that certain animals enjoy the company of humans and follow us everywhere. Beach crows are amazing creatures. I couldn't resist watching their behavior sketch some scenes of their interaction with humans. It's amusing how these thieves wait for the right moment to steal something delicious when people get distracted. It's near-human behavior. While I sketched two girls that sat with their backs to me, an impatient crow walked around them, approaching their bags every minute or so. I forgot about this sketch. But later, when I looked at it, I noticed that the hair of the girl sitting on the left falls in such a way that it resembles the silhouette of a crow with a big beak. So I followed that path with a surrealistic twist and turned Crow into someone more human-like. I liked how the fantasy developed the composition this time and drifted me into this dreamy, ethereal, and pretty exquisite world. I hope you'll like it too!

✔ The painting is signed on the front and back. It is on a gallery-wrapped canvas with finished black edges and comes ready to hang. "The Crow And The Girl" was created between October/December 2022 at the Otherworldly Dream Studio in Jerusalem.

About the series "Intelligent Water":

The changes we have wreaked on the Earth clearly show and are prescient of the future disaster. However, as an artist, I always strive to underline the presence of Light in every work (meaning the Light in a broader sense). I think this is our only hope in these dark times, and it is essential for me to identify my work precisely with that.

I like the hypothesis that Water is a thinking substance of Earth that catches the signals from the Ether and transforms them into some psychic energy. We are not independent creatures and are intensely dependent on Water (among other things), and it's a fact that hard to deny. We live on the living planet of an intelligent ocean, where, as in the Strugatskys' "Solaris," Water is a form of life. We are nothing more than carriers of particles of its intellect.

My inspiration for this project revolves and impels from around the beach area with a clear center point - interaction humans with Water. I started by observing and sketching people on the beach. Then I worked on actual paintings in the studio. As I wanted to make my work more laconic and neater, at some point, I felt the need to get rid of minor elements, leaving only the most "precious" ones. I also felt the minimalistic background could have an exciting impact on the composition. So I first made the background, then constructed the center elements using the prepared sketches.

I think of this series of paintings as bold surreal revelations that might equip us to consider radically new views of reality and reflect a unified picture of the world, where everything is infinitely interconnected.

Verwante thema's

MarineSandSunSeaBeach