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The Approaching Storm

10/26/2018

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PictureThe Approaching Storm
This painting combines several ideas that I have visited before in my imagery: birds, terrariums, and landscape. However, by bringing those elements together in an invented space I have done something new for me right now.

The result - I now have more questions then answers about where I'm going with my imagery. I definitely see this as a transitional piece.

In the MFA program I am currently enrolled, I get a lot of thoughtful feedback from inside the art school world. This work was a part of my presentation to my critique group yesterday. So, I'm curious, from outside that environment, what ideas do you read in this work? 

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Gabi
10/26/2018 06:28:52 am

I like it. Def a new direction for u coming more from an emotional space. Re-using/analyzing themes of ur work and giving them a different or more mysterious context. Leaves the viewer more too. to feel or try to figure out the meaning or reason for it themselves.

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Julia
10/27/2018 05:40:27 am

Yes, I like that open for interpretation quality. Thanks for your feedback, Gabi!

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Michael Moore link
10/26/2018 08:03:30 am

Hi Julia. I wish I were there with you, but my retirement has worked out well, as Jo-Anna had a full knee replacement last week, so I was needed by her side. Regarding your recent MFA watercolor(I believe), I am reminded that blue and yellow are surrogates for black and white, and that your work usually employs a much wider range of color relationships. Your great expertise exists within pattern and color - patterns of color - so, as you integrate representational images, consider doing so more gently, or gradually, so that they appear (almost like apparitions) via, and through patterns of color, as if the piano revealed the rhythm and melody rather than simply played it. A lot of this has to do with delineation of edges. Let the edges come last, from the inside, out.
Love to you from both Jo-Anna and me. Michael.

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Julia
10/27/2018 05:39:00 am

Thanks, Michael! Your point about color and pattern is an inspirational eye-opener for me.
I do miss your presence at school!

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Utah Hubby
5/30/2019 12:56:54 pm

I love this piece and definitely think it is a direction you should continue to go. The dark theme makes me think of night (nothing ominous to me)The birds of daylight and I like to imagine the rocks are a deeper thought of where I am in Utah right now. I’m so happy to see more of the work I enjoy seeing you produce, You always impress me with your talent. I’m
Love you, Josh

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