Drifting To Oblivion, We Drown In Beauty

 

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In the early years of Moon of Alabama I, at times, posted works of art created and sent in by commentators who had moved with me to this blog after Billmon had shut down his 'Whiskey Bar'.

Their were oil paintings by anna-missed, photographs by b_real, poems by rememberinggiap, ceramics by annie and pictures in oil, pastel or acrylic by beq.

Other commentators reflected on those works.

Such Bar-fly art still has its (unfortunately incomplete) category page. Here you can scroll through it. After I had taken a break in posting at this site the Bar-fly art theme never revived.

So I was pleasantly surprised when beq recently contacted me and sent me a new picture.

She wrote:

I have four large paintings that I made last year. Each is 42"x 94" [107 x 239 cm]. I lay down on the paper and had a friend trace my outline on the paper with spray paint. The rest is watercolor. [These are not what you're used to :-)]

drifting to oblivion, we drown in beauty

by beq

much bigger

beq adds:

I've painted the four as if I'm in a stream moving right to left. [...] I just got an email that all four are going into a show in a week or two.

The theme of the paintings has (loosely) to do with Elementals:

"The Elementals are spirits who reside on the astral plane, using their sorcery to control our sphere through their mystical powers. Their purpose is to protect all living creatures who reside in our realm, acting as our guardians from evil."

My artist statement is: "The path to oblivion is Elemental. Who? What? Why? or walk by."

I hope others might come forward with their creations. We need Art. "EARTH without ART is EH"

Posted by b on June 15, 2023 at 14:08 UTC | Permalink

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