So here goes… I know that I’m a bit shy about my art but the whole VASU experience has made me realize that it is only with practice that I am ever going to get anywhere. This piece, a quadriptych is an attempt to move beyond the cliched use of four basic panels. I am now working my way onto a nine piece installation which should be fun [I think!].
This piece is called lost rainbows never sing and is about displacement or if you like diaspora (what a bad bad word that has become) and the pain of belonging or not belonging and its about the Pacific and the ocean and one-eyed fish in open skies. I completed in just in time to be exhibited at the Fiji Arts Council Exhibition hosted at the US Ambassadors residence in Suva earlier this month [March 16, 2009].
Gigi, one of the twins helped me name the piece while Kati, the other tried to make sense of my manic paint session with the kitchen sponge.
Lost rainbows never sing:
flying fish eyes
hover over blood dreams.
ochre women weeping.
still she wears the moon around her throat
in search of a song…
(c) lost rainbows never sing, 2009
(4 x 300mm x 400mm, Acrylic on Canvas. Collection of Letilla Mitchell, Director FAC, 2009)
I’ll be interested to hear your comments on this piece as its an experiment in process. I have to say being a relatively unknown visual artist makes for great conversation, while you stand by your painting and listen to an elite audience critique and attempt to interpret your work. hmm… Having the other more established artists comment is always great as well although my skin isnt tough enough yet I think for that level of critiquing! (back story : it took me two-years to finally tell the Niu Waves Writers’ Collective that I was ready for their criticism! *lol*).
Here’s to more painting and perhaps happier rainbows.
~ C
