Guardian Angel
Oil on
cradled canvas
4’ x 4’
January
26 - 31, 2019
In the
fourth hour after sunrise an angel leads a boy and a girl across a municipal
bridge. They are leaving behind a squalid area of informal settlers on the
right and are moving toward a place of lush Nature on the left.
This
painting was designed to hang in the Library Director’s office at Maryhill School
of Theology. A small, cardboard model of a pyramid will be hung on the right
side of the painting to show how this painting was conceived, which was to view
the flat surface of the painting as a three-dimensional pyramid from directly
on top of it.
Imagine
the painting cut into four quadrants, or isosceles triangles, then imagine
constructing them together again in the shape of a pyramid. The apex of the
pyramid should be that tiny space between the angel’s left hand and the little
girl’s head.
This is the auditory stimulus I used while making this painting. It became popular in the Philippines in 1964, when I was in seventh grade. My older sisters started taking me to their dance parties then. (Yes, I danced.) The lead drummer of this group passed away quite recently, so this is somewhat a tribute to him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIuIIqbyEIU
This is the auditory stimulus I used while making this painting. It became popular in the Philippines in 1964, when I was in seventh grade. My older sisters started taking me to their dance parties then. (Yes, I danced.) The lead drummer of this group passed away quite recently, so this is somewhat a tribute to him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIuIIqbyEIU
See how the picture can be divided into different planes, like sculpture, and how lighting changes it depending on where it's coming from.
