Forlorn--MC
It has been a long time since I last offered a gratuitous interpretation of an artwork of mine. Hence this.
As good paintings go, this may not even qualify as one but I have a particular affinity for it. I painted it perhaps three years ago in rapid strokes as a practice run. When I finished it, it began to grow on me; not because of artistic merit but its forlorn mood.
On the face of it, it is an empty office building or office lot. It is glass-fronted, stretching into the horizon. I do not know how big the building is but it is big. And yet it is almost completely devoid of any human presence except, if you look, there is a forlorn red/magenta figure it. Is it me? Well, who it might be is not as important as that there is someone. I did not want it to be have a discernible gender but it ended up having it. It is a male.
I have done more than 500 paintings so far, both actual and digital. There are many I like a great deal but this one always creates a sense of finality in me. To me it signals a personal end, a conclusion, a denouement. At the same time though, it has a very distant horizon. So it is possible that there is perhaps something beyond termination.
You would notice that the figure is quite some distance away from the horizon which perhaps means that he is not yet done. Perhaps he is at the beginning of being done.
That's all for today.