I love the ground on which she sits too - with the leaves like burnished fire all around her. "The chair she sat on, like a burnished throne, burned upon the water....."
As I recall Heraclitus was the Greek philosopher who argued for the essential unity of all human experience, through "Logos" in which all things are united. Thus while oppposites - Ying and Yang - are essential to all life they are contained within a wider system of balanced inter-exchanges symbolized essentially in the elemnt of fire. As such he was the the first thinker, in the Western tradition at least, to transecnd a purely physical theory of human existence, replacing it with a metaphysical foundation of moral existence. Is this the basis of your work here? Or am I missing the point?
Finally, in one sense, at least, this is a form of horizontalism!
davidB:>)
Hi Jess, titles are an essential part of the process of creation for me....
..since fine art emerges from a idea, an impression, or a reaction, to the situation an artist finds (or has found) themselves in (or can think themselves into) - for me at least, this means that each piece can also be given meaning in words. In my work "untitled", means waiting for a title - and some that have a given title can also be subject to change on the better suggestions of others.
In this case I missed the 'same river twice' reference, as I had forgotten that this was t ...
Thanks everyone!
David, they are water beads and you hit the nail on the head with Heraclitus. Glad someone picked up on the reference I made in the title. I had the main idea for this piece...the model and her position but as I worked on it I was thinking a lot about transition and development. The quote by Heraclitus "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." He expresses the notion of eternal change in terms of the continuous flow of the rive ...
