Monday, March 21, 2011




The piece that would be written in response to this painting or inspired by this painting would have a lighter tone, free verse in style, and would have a conversational voice. It would make me desire to focus on things that may appear everyday or mundane but in actuality help to break up the hectic and chaotic world we live in, allowing for the city and the world in general to just drop to the background. Jane puts together a still life and a landscape. It reminds me of a photograph where in which the photographer has focused on something very small compared to the out of focus world around it, like a tiny flower on a sidewalk. This brings the reader or the viewer back to their own life and it becomes introspective. A stream of consciousness also seems to be appropriate with this painting. In “The Waves” by Virginia Woolf there is one very small part where in the midst of normal day one of the primary characters focuses in on the grass and the flowers growing throughout the lawn. This type of subject matter I think seems appropriate. Something that seems inconsequential compared to the world around it, but when looked at more closely is something that should be appreciated.

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