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| Forgotten Languages 18" x 24" oils $275.00 *New* 11/17/08 |
| ’Forgotten Languages′ 18″ x 24″ x 2" - oils Finished sides, back stapled canvas, needs no frame, ready to hang oils & acrylics Original fine art inspired by ancient cave paintings and pictographs Thick back stapled canvas, needs no frame and is ready to hang The quote for this work: "Archaeologists have not yet discovered any stage of human existence without art. Even in the half-light before the dawn of humanity we received this gift from Hands we did not manage to discern. Nor have we managed to ask: Why was this gift given to us and what are we to do with it? And all those prophets who are predicting that art is disintegrating, that it has used up all its forms, that it is dying, are mistaken. We are the ones who shall die. And art will remain. The question is whether before we perish we shall understand all its aspects and all its ends. Not all can be given names. Some of them go beyond words. Art opens even the chilled, darkened heart to high spiritual experience. Through the instrumentality of art we are sometimes sent vaguely, briefly insights which logical processes of thought cannot attain. Like the tiny mirror of the fairy tale: you look into it and see not yourself but for one fleeting moment the Unattainable to which you cannot leap or fly. And the heart aches Dostoyevsky once let drop the enigmatic phrase: Beauty will save the world. What does this mean? For a long time it used to seem to me that this was a mere phrase. Just how could such a thing be possible? When had it ever happened in the bloodthirsty course of history that beauty had saved anyone from anything? Beauty had provided embellishment certainly, given uplift but whom had it ever saved? ~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn This new work falls into what has been called whimsy for my style of work eh, whatever. It is really a very cool collection of pictographs from the Mexico regional native peoples spanning over a few centuries. The main figure is from the 17th century for example, the moon in all its phases, from a later date. Every line in the entire work is actually a snippet of an ancient language. I mixed all the ones I liked [ read: remembered] together, and came up with this painting. Like shake n bake for art. I have all theses reference books, and I love pictographs and ancient text of all types, yes, I totally wanted to be Indiana Jones as a kid, real bad too. It’s carried on into my adult life and has become a large part of my work, telling big stories by focusing on the small details of a universal, easy to understand human symbols. (I call it Heather-speak, shhh, thats a secret) Seriously, I want you to get my work, not have to study it. I also want to teach, and remind the soul in each person my work may encounter. Either to wake them to something within themselves (reaction), or to re-mind them of something they have forgotten from the symbolic images (resonance) I use. I have not done a painting recently that wasn't in my own language, and after painting "Seasons of Love" recently I have been back in love with ancient hieroglyph and pictographs. The only thing about my cave painting is that I'm a very modern cave-person, it gave me a fun excuse to paint bubble wrap and stick it stuff. I love that repeated circle over and over, it's my favorite. For fear of being "trendy" or Whimsical, I have not been playing as much, you know, just playing around. I've been all serious and productive and insightful but it has not been a party place, round here. ( I've been the serious BAD! Kitty or as serious a this kitty gets anyway)This work was plain old fun. I turned up the dance groove and spaced out for a while, it was great. I just hope I didn't put the picture together in some way that says something in a real language, good lord I can see it now people standing there getting mad because I insulted their mother or something. I was just playing around, I don't know what all the images mean and I didn't take the time to find out while I was playing, (or since, I guess I don't want to know either) then it would have been work. Not fun, putting down the time to play around in my own head space, priceless. I hope you enjoy seeing it. Thank for being here. Heather |
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