The Nature of Light: Yellow

I have always been drawn to complex imagery.  I was trying to find a new way to express that idea and it dawned on me that an ordinary piece of aluminum foil has a gigantic number of value and color changes, under the right conditions.  I found that those conditions are not so easy to bring about.  After some manipulating with light positions and subject matter I found some interesting photos worth pursuing.  This image is the first of this thought.  I struggled with the titling for this series (I will do more - I'm taking a break from number 2, as we speak) and finally wound up with the thing that I felt was most accurate and descriptive.  "The Nature of Light," is such that light properties are the subject matter.  I learned in junior high science that light traveled in straight lines.  I also learned that if I can see you in a mirror, you can also see me.  That was described as the angle of incidence equaling the angle of reflection.  On the shiny surface of tinfoil you can see less than a mirror but the overall effect is the same.  As in the Fun House in a carnival, with their wavy mirrors, the light and imagery is not what your brain expects.  On the level that I am working, the surface has been manipulated way more than a, simple wavy mirror surface.  All of the light bouncing off the bush (the same bush used in my painting "It's Not a Choice) with the yellow leaves, instead of going directly into my eye, are bouncing of the aluminum surface randomly and wildly.  However, only the facets facing toward the leaves are reflecting the yellow.  The rest of the image is made up of other random surfaces:  The grey clapboards on the shed and the other leaves that are green, the sky and probably some of me made it into the other facets of the reflective surfaces.  So, I have effectively altered the reality of the situation so as to make it an abstraction within an absolutely and totally real situation, just by telling the truth of the reflected light.  I will estimate that the amount of truth I represented is near the 95% mark.  I will admit that within the remaining 5% there is some lying...or should I say some"alchemy?"




Medium: Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Framed with a black floating frame
Size: 21" x 29"


Price: $3,800.00 (Price does not include applicable sales tax or shipping)