Hexagon
I am experimenting with geometrical forms in nature here. The starting point for this is a crystal but I am intentionaly bluring lines with painting.
The Philosopher's Stone
Pythagoras, Escher, Siderite
This is a modified image of a mineral siderite. It has what is called a rhombohedral cleavage (how the rock breaks). I simply enhanced the natural colors. The bottom half was created with "Particle Shop" which is a Photoshop Plug in creating additional geometric enhancement. Xrays are used to look at crystals structures whose wavelength is a few orders of magnitude smaller than the width of a human hair and het you could hold this mineral in a hand.
Cleavage
This is a rock. I hand mapped the cleavages and shifted the color spectrum and intensity.
The source material is a mineral anorthoclase which has perfect cleavage in one direction.
I wanted to express a connection between the natural cleaveages of cryslaline structures forged in volcanos and painting. Many abstract artists worked with color fields. as I paint over the texture of the rock the connection to natural processes is not as strong.
it is interesting to look at the work of these artists.
monet - monet was one the first to use texure and color as art in itself. before this time art was morfe m like photography but what is ingteresting is as photogrphy became more possible with the advent of technology art moved towards abstact fors as it did in monet. I recently spent some time looking at this.
bridge over a pond of water littlies - monet - metrip;olitan museum of art nyc
Then there is Mondrian who use rectangular forms. In these sense he moved away from complex shapes to use color to express movement even in a static color field.
Rothko use color in even more fixed formed ofter rectangular to invite the viewer into another world though meditation.
I take from the example of these artists although I am not trying to duplicate them. I want to show that God is inviting us into the world of nature to see his kingdom. Science cannot penetrate it with its technology and instruments but art can.
