When you add the moon you have harmony of boundary and boundlessness. A figure in an abstract background is a microcosm of this natural phenomenon.
The figure gets its importance from the composition which is essentially shapes and colours arranged in a configuration that is determined by the hidden geometry of the Greeks' Golden Section. There are countless possibilities of creating artistic feeling by combining the universal beauty of figurative art with the harmonious relationships of non-objective form. The background conglomeration of forms should breathe with a life of their own; but they also should be a part of the picture with patterns enhancing the central figure and in the process create a remote ambiguity that draws the spectator into the picture plane without use of traditional perspective. Like man himself, who is both an individual and a member of his community, the figure in the picture remains distinct but is also an integrated part of the picture's total composition.
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I feel I can oscillate freely between figurative and non-representational work on the same canvas because I do not want to be a victim of rules that someone else set up. It is a question of my artistic freedom and it is not an impossible hope that critics could learn to look at two things at once and see three or one. For example, when two colours overlap and the second one is somewhat transparent, then you have three colours. The result is a colour space with a real effect of depth where the power of one penetrates through the other and creates a new colour nuance that in turn creates a new sense of space. Similarly, to combine non-objective or abstract sensations with figurative sensitivity, where shapes float in an organized composition to help the figure - background interaction, creates an expression of purely new artistic feeling.
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With regard to the background itself, the idea is to take the viewer's eyes for a walk. Behind the flecked and speckled paint is a carefully composed design with the illusion of objects floating in space with light and colour to suggest movement has just happened and is about to happen. The background is more than a decorative section of multicoloured shapes, for it portrays the restless rhythms of life. Swirling forms in a lyrical pattern,
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