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Jazmine L. Gabriel

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Question: what if a painting doesn’t make sense? Flat and perspective ? Can it work ?

Begin with a question

I wonder

What of cohesion ? Perspective in the clouds and flat abstraction below? Can it hang together ?

Motivating Questions

What is red?

What if I limit color?

What is yellow?

What is red and how does it relate to other colors? What of depth and flatness ? What can I create with just horizontals and verticals?

What is yellow?

What if I limit color?

What is yellow?

What if I do less? What if I add loops to the vertical and horizontals ? What if I stop trying so hard?  What if gnats get stuck in the paint?

What if I limit color?

What if I limit color?

What if I limit color more?

What can I do with white, raw umber, and ultramarine blue on top of a an overworked painting? 

What if I limit color more?

What do I see in the Willamette?

What if I limit color more?

What if I limit color even more? But throw a little in.... Where is the line between derivative and

How much work can white do? What is the line between derivative and original?

What do I see in the Willamette?

What do I see in the Willamette?

What do I see in the Willamette?

If I take away the pressure of canvas and just paint shapes and lines quickly on "bad," thin paper, what will I see that I've missed before? How can I free myself from imagining the end result?

Nonsense

What do I see in the Willamette?

What do I see in the Willamette?

Why does everything have to make sense?    What if the reflection is just a block that floats like a substance without depth?

What can I make of lines without paint?

What can I make of lines without paint?

What can I make of lines without paint?

How flat can I make a photograph?

What can I make of lines without paint?

What can I make of lines without paint?

What is worthy?

What can I make of lines without paint?

What is worthy?

Do I have to choose subject matter that calls to mind ancient myths and the history of art? What if I use as few lines as possible to draw my sleeping cat on the couch? So what.


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