Channeling My Inner Miro

I haven't been looking at Miro a whole lot lately...but some of my work really is starting to remind me of some of his imagery.

By no means is it an exact match...and that's good. I never want to see one of my own pieces and just immediately think of a similar piece by someone else. THe power would be lost. The conversation would dissappear...all personality of the piece would end up being that of whatever piece it constantly remind me of...but here...it's almost a coincidental inspiration.

Miro's piece uses simple shapes and color patterns, each connecting but also independent of each other, moving almost as a web. With my work, I use quick mark-making, dashes, scratches, and scribbles, to create forms which blend together, sway and flow. Where Miro's objects have distance, space, and constant relationship to that around it, my marks vibrate, bump into one another, overlap and crawl apart.

Although they have different effects, finding the similarities, contrasting and comparing the two...it's the best way to see what's working, what is not. What you like and what you don't. It's a great opportunity for the artist to look at their own work in a different light...not by asking what they like (that's what you're doing throughout the creative process), but by pointing out what is different, and how that difference affects the rest of the experience. From there, you can begin to understand what is and isn't working for the piece, and address it more directly...