Saturday, August 31, 2024

The Unspeakable Trauma

Prepared this idea on a small smooth panel yesterday, with (unusually) a base layer of ultramarine violet, and painted it today. The colours are mostly pure grey, with a hint of green in the darker foreground objects:

Current title is 'The Unspeakable Trauma'. It was inspired by an image in the film 'The Razor's Edge', though parts were improvised today. The tiny figure in the foreground is Fuseli's Odysseus, the hair hanging from the tree on the left that of Kate Bush (although nobody but you, dear reader, would ever be able to determine that).