3256 - Prescience Web 2 Painting

The literal meaning of prescience is knowing something in advance before it exists or happens. I wanted a dichotomy of opposing ideas to play against each other in this work. Not only visually but metaphorically as well. I give an impression of something we all understand and sense of being very small within a very massive universe. One idea to think about is that the red dot could be us, lost in a tangle of a spiders nest. Is the spider our friend or our enemy or both friend and enemy as we are too insignificant to represent the effort expended on us as a tiny meal so its nest gives us protection. Another idea could be that the white delicate threads intertwined interminably to form a nest or trap all within a vast blackness of some faraway place in reality or in thought. Another could be synapses in the brain, the simplicity of thin tendrils seem endless and impenetrable as they engulf the presence of something vulnerable like an egg, a cell, a soul, or an expressed idea. The birth of a revolutionary period in history. No matter what feeling or picture is conjured up in the mind of the viewer, this faraway place within the canvas is perhaps imagined and at the same time real. We’ve all been there. Caught in the uncertainty of making the right decision. A paradox of tangible and dreamlike metaphors is the difference of being asleep and being awake at the same time. The symbolic red dot could be trapped and desperate or, it could be trapped and safe. But it is for certain, trapped whether it wants to be or not. The question is no body or no thing knows when or how it will change its destiny.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:78.7 W x 78.7 H x 1.6 D in

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