Thamathis
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Comment by Margie on January 9, 2013 at 9:09am -
Awesome!
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Comment by Jon Reischl on April 17, 2012 at 8:55am -
Thanks, everybody! @anna & marsha: All of the titles in the series I'm currently working on are meant to be suggestive of actual words, but not meaningful in and of themselves. (The Greek meaning of "thamathis" is an ironic bit of serendipity that I only wish I could take credit for!) With this series of paintings, I'm trying to explore the balance between the foreign and the familiar. I use fairly pedestrian imagery, but presented in an usual way, so that the viewer is immediately struck with the strangeness of the whole, but then able to parse out pieces of information that might be more familiar to them. So there's kind of a push/pull going on between the painting and it's title. By drawing on the elements he or she recognizes, the viewer can begin to build a relationship with the paintings. Yet the titles, which traditionally are meant to provide context, don't hold up under scrutiny as useful pieces of information. My hope is that, by presenting titles with little or no built-in meaning, the viewer is free to re-contextualize what they are seeing purely from their own experiences.
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Comment by Heather Gordy on April 17, 2012 at 1:49am -
Wonderful. The colors and composition are great in this piece.
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Comment by anna on April 7, 2012 at 7:41am -
wow- so much to look at..
about the name -in Greek, it means "you will learn" ..is that intentional?
can you talk about how you made this work ?
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Comment by Rhonda McDuffie on April 4, 2012 at 5:24am -
Striking piece!!!
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Comment by Danielle Evans on April 1, 2012 at 4:55am -
I could look at this all day. Love it!
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Comment by Elke Trittel on March 31, 2012 at 8:03pm -
this must look impressive in real!
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Comment by marsha carlton on March 31, 2012 at 1:20pm -
this is so intriguing. what does the title mean?
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Comment by 05ue98hr2bmf9 on March 31, 2012 at 7:14am -
Love this one, what an interesting composition!
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Comment by Greef on March 30, 2012 at 6:27pm -
I love watching the development of your style!
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