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My astonishing wife is a die-hard minimalist. I, as you might have noticed, am not. Oh, sure, I try to keep things relatively simple and direct, but I do love my little decorative flourishes. It’s those flourishes, spirals and squiggles that always leave my wife shaking her head. I’ve been thinking about doing a multiple color series for a while now. Mixing it with my wife’s very-japanese minimal aesthetic seemed like an interesting experiment.
I threw in a couple of colors and color-combos I wouldn’t usually think of using, to really mix things up. It kind of reminds me of a sort of visual haiku. ‘Course, it also might just be a leaf.
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February 28, 2008 at 10:20 am
elizabeth
This is gorgeous. I love the combination of minimalism (simple design, not a lot of “stuff” in the frame) with the exquisite color and the detail work of the branches and ripples.
February 28, 2008 at 1:25 pm
julie bates
I love the origami (?) paper used in the ripples on the third one. Your art is so beautiful and refined… hard to believe they are “paper cuts”!
February 28, 2008 at 3:38 pm
nina seven
stunning! I love the series aspect of it and the multiple colors really makes them unique.
February 28, 2008 at 9:11 pm
eli edmundson
Really great, but then I’m a hard core minimalist myself… The changes in background color really bring a lot of emotion to this. I wouldn’t mind seeing more in this vein, it must be quicker to do too?
Miro did some simple compositions later in life that I read a critic describe as Miro getting lazy, which was really a dumb thing to write, he spent more time thinking about those pieces and are the most successful to my eye.
Anyhow, just my opinion, but then I like all of your work, just this piece especially.
February 28, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Bua
When I look at your work I feel like I can hear the wind blowing…
Simplicity but full of emotion.
March 1, 2008 at 2:50 am
Lucia
I like your decorative flourishes too, but these experiments could drive you in something new. The perfect fusion of orient and occident. Please, go on, I’m curious!
I’ve also tagged you. You can read all about this in my blog: http://www.lucialtrove.blogspot.com
March 4, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Miz K
Beautiful work. You do amazing things minimally and with flourishes - that is pretty impressive!
March 7, 2008 at 1:14 am
patrick
Thanks everyone! I appreciate the comments.
eli - I totally agree with what you said about Miro. I’m always trying to simplify the piece down to a smaller number of papers (if not details), and that’s a challenge in and of itself. These are a certainly quicker in the cutting and gluing stages, but the drawing take a bit longer to get the balance right, and color choices are key.
Lucia - thanks for the tag! I’ll get to that as soon as I can. I’m charging down a deadline right now, so it might be a bit…
March 14, 2008 at 12:29 am
nemo
I love your work, absolutely delicate and charming…