A Brenda Painting

Link


Originally uploaded by bbmarie.

This painting is titled Link. Perhaps the title has to do with the way the shapes and lines in this piece seem to be interwoven together and connected as if this were what one was seeing under a high power microscope of some kind of organic tissue structure. I have continued to enjoy looking at this painting for the way the particles appear to float inside the picture plane. The layering and suggestion of depth seem to reflect something of what my life feels like, several pulsing layers coexisting with each other, the different aspects of my life that interlock with one another to create the pulsing web that is my life. Painting is a mysterious thing the way it comunicates to us without sound and in complete stillness and yet if you are quiet before a painting like this one it is as if it begins to dance and hum in a very real way. Jacques Deval has said that "God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved birds and invented cages" and I would say that when I take time to look into Brenda's paintings the cage door swings open again.

Comments

[alison]

I really like this. It looks like, and would make, a beautiful hooked rug.