What to write to start a blog. This is possibly the greatest adventure I have ever... ohhh, never mind.
Welcome to my blog. Don't laugh, this is just the beginning of it. Beginnings are always white, blank, and boring. However, white can also be the end. White as snow. That is the end in my mind.
Although his works might appear mundane - Lawrence Calcagno the painter of the White Series has said, “The pure white surface of the canvas is a metaphor for perfection. When I touch the canvas with paint the perfection is destroyed. As I proceed I try to re-approach the harmony and the unity of the original canvas.” and later he stated, “I feel that I paint the white shadow of reality beyond the outward appearance of things and ideas.”
Okay, maybe he was an idealist, but that is okay - Ideals - morals, transparency, reconciliation - Ideals are what make reality not quite so gray. He felt that there was more to reality than the outward vestiges that cloak our world and the people in them. What Calgano felt, I know to be true. People are so much more, reality is so much more. There is so much more life, so much more space, so much more hope in the Spirit, in the inner realm, in that good place. That is what I want to see on this blog - it is so easy to be negative but so very hard to be real. So, please parlay with me, and let's make this something good. Let's explore in The Good Space.
- A.G.
LANDSCAPE AS PROCESS
“The landscape is no longer seen as an object or thing. It becomes a unified color structure or elemental process. Tension is not neutralized; it is brought to a high state of equilibrium, like a spinning top that appears to be motionless. Contradictions between movement and stillness, strength and tenderness, matter and spirit are reconciled to become one in form and image on the canvas.”
LAWRENCE CALCAGNO
Saturday, April 30, 2005
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