Autumn Hoover

This was one the paintings my wife got me for Christmas 08. I wasn’t exactly sure what to do with it. Part of re-painting for me is using the environment that is already established in the picture. I mean, that IS re-painting…. not just part. For me I want the new paint to interact with the old paint. I could add anything to any picture and that’d be well and good, but it is when the new meets the old that something magical tingles one’s innards.

Anyway, I was having trouble finding the magic, so I put the painting below my projector screen from January to March. That way, I was sure to look at it everyday.

Finally, I found it. I noticed that the trees were tilted kind of funny. They were pulled to one side as if an invisible force were acting upon it. After I saw that, it took little time to make the invisible visible. Originally, I thought of having a human hand to hold the hand-vacuum; giving it a celestial feel like giants or gods are cleaning. Ultimately, I decided to stay stay with the monster/robot/alien theme all my paintings have had.

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