“Transfiguration” Abstract Painting

Transfiguration
Original medium: Acrylic on Canvas ©2009
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I began creating this painting a few months ago.  This piece underwent many changes as I experimented with different textural forms and varying color tones.  I poured a lot of paint into this one.  I decided to call this painting Transfiguration because it represents change on a few levels.  The changes took place in the actual painting process.  And change is represented in the abstract subject matter which can be viewed as a rising or setting sun on the horizon.  There is transfiguration in the way the sun, by casting light,  changes our perception of  our scenery.  Very similarly our very own hearts, when casting love, transfigure our bodies and minds and the way we appear before others.

The sky is the soul of all scenery.
It makes the earth lovely at sunrise
and splendid at sunset.
In the one it breathes over the earth
a crystal-like ether,
in the other a liquid gold.

- Thomas Cole

Transfiguration – Detail

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