Tuesday, June 19, 2012

HEART OF DARKNESS, page 014

Title: "There it is before you -- smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, 'Come and find out.'"

7.75 inches by 11 inches
acrylic paint and ink on watercolor paper
June 10, 2012

5 comments:

  1. Breathtaking, Matt. If these ever go up for sale, please put my name on this one. :)

    We don't have many guests at our house, but when we do, your Moby Dick art & book are the center of attention.

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  2. Thank you Sandy. I had something very different in mind when I started laying down the washes of texture and color. Gradually though, this took shape. It's a bit of an homage to the prehistoric vistas so vividly depicted in the dinosaur books I obsessed over as a child. As is very fitting really for this passage and a book about a journey in the most primal of jungles.

    I am absolutely certain I will be selling these all. I hope to begin with a gallery show of all 100 pieces, but that should not preclude me claiming this one for you. Unless of course (as I always say) some eccentric millionaire with a zen for Conrad offers me six figures for the entire series. Other than that, it's yours.

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  3. Fingers crossed for you on the eccentric millionaire, but I'll be here in the meantime! :)

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  4. I love the way this immediately evokes the microscopic life that, even now, is invading Marlow's body.

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  5. RF, it makes me very very happy that you wrote that comment. I can't help but occasionally wonder what you would think of these as I work on them, which is an odd thing for me.

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