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Ron Griswold

Medium: Painting

I was born a romantic dreamer. I remember wondering who painted the clouds in the sky, and when I died I wanted to go to heaven and do it. However, the environment that I was brought up in was very antithetical to art of any kind. It’s a wonder I became an artist at all. I was lucky to have a strong defiant streak. Also, I was very naive, so when the university asked me what I wanted to major in I said art. I thought artists were magical, and why not go for broke? I said I was naive, but I’m also very determined and never give up. So here I am today, living with a decision made without any forethought and not regretting it one bit.

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Dawn

The song seemed, a fable about the beginning of time told by a troubadour from a land that no longer exists. Thestructure of the song felt like a comet so I structured the composition of my painting as I saw the comet in my mind. It carried a short burst of narrative, which trailed off in long bits and pieces interweaving themselves into different and new spaces. Layer after layer of music came to me as if it were growing fractals, tapering off, leaving me feeling as though I had woke from an impressionist dream. The lady in the painting is Dawn. She is the transference of energy between the ice and the sun. The yellow figure is the singer, the storyteller. The song didn’t belong in this world so I chose to not put my characters in a landscape but rather in the clouds to evoke an imaginative place not tethered to any world.

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