Exploration and Discovery

ANGLES

When I think of the word “angle”, I think of the many definitions of the word such as viewpoint or a sharp corner or perspective. They are all the same – a different way of seeing something that is not in a straight perpendicular or horizontal way.

Now that I’m painting abstract views of the Vancouver city skyline, I look up, instead of looking in for the metaphysical images or looking forward with landscapes.

Gazing up at the buildings extending towards the sky, I see various aspects which I need to flatten out into two dimensional shapes.  The buildings in fact are still solid square blocks.  It is the perspective that changes them.

In painting these, I place them right back to what they are, perpendicular rectangular buildings firmly planted on the ground.

It is like reconstructing the city which is really energizing!