tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18765888.post7910538153532450720..comments2023-10-19T07:09:33.346-07:00Comments on Painting Journal: Workshop at Fall Creek Fish Hatchery and Research CenterDiane Widler Wenzelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05270246393901276648noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18765888.post-90548638302627706512009-11-08T20:44:22.372-08:002009-11-08T20:44:22.372-08:00There is more to the painting "Fort Hood"...There is more to the painting "Fort Hood". The grass is brown and floats on the white picture surface without roots. Grass roots are so tiny but have many, branching parts. How could the many contacts within the Army missed the warnings. This absence of needed watchful support is the root of the tragedy. Or is the brown grass the soldiers killed by Maj. Nidal Malik Hassan? <br /><br /><br />?Diane Widler Wenzelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05270246393901276648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18765888.post-87279320165048687422009-11-08T08:03:34.195-08:002009-11-08T08:03:34.195-08:00Kay,
Yes, I would be proud to have painted "F...Kay,<br />Yes, I would be proud to have painted "Ft. Hood". I am proud of recognizing how well it expresses the white sheet shroud as a book signature. The symbolism is complete saying so much with so little. One symbol is the book of life. A book signature paper is folded into a grid of sixteen rectangles and cut into pages of a book that can symbolize a full book of life. When the soldiers were killed their book of life sheet was unfolded and became a symbolic shroud in the painting "Ft. Hood". <br />At some level of the student's consciousness, he organized the painting extreemly well. Every part of it is important. There is the setting of the sun filled sky behind the waters of life. The upright flag pole with a flag fallen and limp and the stars gone and the stripes indistinguishable. It gives me goose bumps.Diane Widler Wenzelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05270246393901276648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18765888.post-91923815310352238732009-11-07T22:41:17.948-08:002009-11-07T22:41:17.948-08:00I love your Ft. Hood picture! And I loved your co...I love your Ft. Hood picture! And I loved your commentary on artistic endeavors because I've been considering taking a watercolor class?Kay Dennisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02646717192332313215noreply@blogger.com