Peter… Your amber varnish jar…exquisite example of fueled perception, and “not the photographed, but other”. Back too many years ago at Pratt, I was fortunate enough to work two semesters with Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, “Color and Light”. She assigned to me at a turbulent time in life, to do a portrait of my remembered visions of a brother who during that time had committed suicide. That assignment in a minimum of 50 layers, (pigments bound in linseed oil, tempera underpaint) stunningly has informed my perception, vision and otherness of that which we are able to see if we rest long enough allowing it to make the journey to us. That luminous magic of the journey light travels to reach one from those glazes jumped out to my gasp on seeing your “jar”.
The quinacridones and other organic pigments of those days, then the newer transparent iron oxides (burnt sienna, yellow ochre) leapt out of my monitor transporting me to a cherished time and gratitude for a gift received so long ago. Thank you. Lumine!
