Details: Incertitude

Name: Incertitude
Size: 12x12 inches
Product ID: P0003
Price: $250

Incertitude is an original oil painting on a gallery stretched canvas. Painting is signed by the artist. 2005

The inspiration for this painting comes from Cristina Peri Rossi's The Ship of Fools. The text reads:

In the dream I heard an order: You will come to the city- describe it. So I asked, How shall I know what is meaningful from what is not?

Later I found myself in a field, winnowing wheat from chaff. Under a grey sky and lilac clouds, the work was hard, but simple. Time didn't exist, rather it had turned to stone. I kept working in silence until she appeared. Stooping over the field, she took pity on a weed and I, to please her, added it to the harvest. The she did the same for a stone. After, she begged mercy for a mouse. When she had gone, I was confused. The straw seemed more beautiful and the grain, unyielding. Doubt overwhelmed me.

I stopped my work. Since then wheat and chaff have mixed. Under the grey sky the horizon is a smudge, and no voice answers.

What this prose means to me is this: What often is desired or undesirable is dictated to us. We are told what things mean. What our values are. What is good and what is evil. When confronted with the opposite-when the undesirable becomes desired- confusion sets in. We no longer know what is meaningful from what is not.

I chose a crow for this painting because, well, I like crow imagery. But crows, to me, are a bird that are not normally desired. They are not beautiful like other songbirds. Nor do they have a song. They are scavengers often sitting on trash and garbage. They are on the fringe of society. Not totally accepted, but present nonetheless. In her beak she holds a grain of wheat- almost like an offering. And the stones have a presence as well.

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