Here is one of my paintings. What is it? Rather, what is it about?
My basic intention was to do a series of paintings of horizontal stripes.
One of my teachers once said to me: "In sculpture, there are basically two motifs. Verticals are standing figures and horizontals are reclining figures."
I think this is pretty true. Extending the notion: I think that verticals represent the human struggle to live; horizontals suggest rest or death, or subsidence into the infinite horizon.
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