Floaters Over a Landscape

[the mingo]

Floaters Over a Landscape

[judih]

& there's something japanese about this.
very beautiful, but haunting

[the mingo]

Thank you, judih. I spent a lot of time in Japan on my first tour in the Navy. Their calligraphy, their scrolls, their poetry, their paintings, the arrangements in their dry gardens, their artistic attitudes in general, all made a big impression on this backwoods boy from northern New York. One that I still carry all these decades later. I understood more from that experience than I realized at the time. It touches the things I do with shape & form to this day. Thanks again, judih. I'm glad it touched you.

[dadio]

I love Miro's art. Yours has that similar vein. Love this and the colouring.

[the mingo]

Thx dadio. No accident you mentioned Miro. His paintings, more than any other painter, showed me something. Something that has stuck with me and inspires me to paint in the first place. From the first painting of his I ever saw ... in all of his works I see a man not playing with paint or color or form but playing through all these with his imagination - directly. He played triumphantly and pure too. I was shocked when I saw it, shocked, and set free. Set free not only from the past but from the future too. Set free from fear, envy, jealousy. Set free from trying to make or create. Set free not only from something but for something. Set free to play. You asked me once how I did a certain painting and I answered by saying I just play. I was not being facetious or playing light with your question. I meant it. I meant it to the heights and to the depths. If I could give anything to anyone i would give them play. When i come to an unmarked canvas or monitor screen on a paint program it is my sandbox and my sandbox is the world spinning through the universe. I wish play for you too, in spades forever & always. Play is inexhaustible & self-renewing & constant & unstoppable & when I'm at play I'm as close to joy as I've ever been. I'm not an artist, Terry, I'm a player.
Thx for lookin & sayin' & i'm glad you enjoyed.

[SadLuckDame]

If we'll all bees playing.
I love to play, too.
Your work has a lot of happiness.

I can look at pieces of artists' paintings which draw out my sadness, pain, etc.
but I don't want to be sad or hurt mostly
mostly I like enjoying the moment happy
and you gift me that all the time, mingo.

[the mingo]

It's good to know it happens out that way for ya, Annie, and I'm smiling because of it.