Ghost Particles no. 4

30" x 40"

Acrylic

To purchase this painting please contact the artist at christopher@chriswoolley.com

"So now I decide to allow this painting to go where ever it wants to go. What develops is a lighter background and the particles raining down like subatomic fireworks from the sky. Yes, the final form of this painting isn't what I expected when I started. I'm trying to just allow things to happen as they happen.

I find this process to be pretty fascinating. To me it emulates natures basic element of random order. The concept where an oak leaf is easily identifiable as a species but every leaf is different. This implies that the rules of nature have been concensly set but allowed to work themselves out in a random fashion. I'd like to think that this concept is at least part of what Jackson Pollock was thinking when he made the statement "I am nature". When an artist paints in this fashion they chose the paint, the size of the canvas, the manor in which they move their arm and somewhat how the paint comes off the brush. But beyond that the paint finds it's own path. I see Pollacks paintings as a perfect execution of random order."

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