Thought Row Blog — earth

  The Interpretive Side Of Non-Interpretive Art: What is this painting all about? You might say it's a disentanglement by me from my usual style, that I call Receptive Abstract Patternernism. There is an obvious interpretive element in this work. The three trees are floating on an island in a sea of blue with a thousand whitecaps. The earth-brown shape that corrals the ocean is dotted with green nonrepresentational foliage. Not too terribly complicated when you take the time to view the work. But it could be more interesting if there was a story to go with it. . The...