Golden Ship of Stars and Dreams

by Aberjhani

Title

Golden Ship of Stars and Dreams

Artist

Aberjhani

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Photograph - Painting + Digital

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It always interests me the way some people immediately see one image or meaning in a particular work of abstract art while others may perceive something completely different. So far as "Golden Ship of Stars and Dreams" goes, I confess that it took me some time––years in fact––to realize I was creating work which falls into the category of what I called: emergent expressionism or transformative impressionism. In an article on a contemporary artist based in Dublin, I defined the terms as follows.:

“...If emergent expressionism lends chromatic form and substance to in-between states of metamorphosis, then transformative impressionism may be described as endowing such stages of transition with metaphorical narrative.” (from Sensualized Transcendence: Editorial and Poem on the Art of Jaanika Talts)

The thing about the color palette and completed composition for the central image seen here is that it started out some years ago as light shades of gray and white which I thought was shaping up into an abstract seascape. I would go back to it periodically to guide the eventual emergence of the expressionistic seascape and add certain colors here or trim parts of it somewhere else.

Then one day I got caught up in a rush of inspiration until the original canvas was completely gone. There before me in its place was what, to my mind, looked like a ship of gold surrounded by several gleaming figures. The giant face of one looming beside the ship stood out more than the others and almost prompted me to name this Golden Dreamer of Love and Mercy. The prominence of a golden ship's bow reaching out of the center made me opt for a new choice.

I was tempted to define the figures more precisely but chose to borrow a lesson from the late Thomas Kinkade and restricted myself to adding splashes of light and the cosmic-themed frame containing swirls of stars.

Aberjhani
Sept 2018

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September 5th, 2018

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