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Two-thirds scale mockup of a group of six paintings intended to de displayed together in the arrangement shown in this picture. The six images that follow are of the full scale paintings. It is easy enough to make a painting in which everyone sees more or less the same thing when they look at it. “Look a picture of a girl with a mandolin, and one with a mountain.” In these paintings I wanted to create images that people could look at and see different things, not just a simple inkblot test, but something with depth that makes the one think in new ways. “Is this coming forward or receding, is it a landscape or something alive, or is it some sort of symbol?” My intent is that all six paintings be displayed without their titles, so that the viewer is not instructed what to think about the images by what they are called. Number six is painted on a small box in which the titles of the paintings and a small mirror are mounted. This way the curious viewer has the opportunity to learn the titles, and see their own facial reactions as they do so.Related content
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What a cool idea 
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I have trouble with that one too, and I don't like to include text in my work, it pulls the viewer right back into the verbal, left brain mode, and the stop really looking at the art. I write all over the backs of my canvasses though.
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what do you write on the backs of your canvases?
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All sorts of things actually. Mostly I write what I'm thinking at the time I'm painting, or a bit about why I made the painting, and usually the title. It helps a lot if years later I am asked to write something about the painting for a show, and I don't loose it like I would if it were on paper, because it is on the painting. There is rather a long rant on the back of Wide Open Spaces of Texas, and one on Chained to the Electric Hearth.
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That sounds very useful, what a good idea.
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So you told me Earth, Sky and Mystery what are the other 3 names?
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OK, I'm sure that if you were viewing these in person you would go open the box and find out. The reason I hide the titles is so that you have a chance to let the image become what you need it to be without any influence from the titles that I have given them, whick are as arbitrary as those anyone else might come up with. Number one is "The Goddess", number two is "The God", and number three is "The Union". All six are various aspects of what people everywhere consider divine. Because the notion of the divine is something that must be sought out, the idea is for the viewer to come to her or his own impressions of the images. There it all is except for the mirror in the box.
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