I have started over with my "careless" painting. After eight years doing realistic work. Maybe my acting as "the Dancing Bear Honeypaw" in the group Abellis Magical Theatre have had an greater impact than I expected. The Bear can only see fragments of the world through tiny holes in the nose. Something of this "spotty" way of seeing might explain strange shifts in color and motif. Completely displaced at a first glance. The picture is a disassemblage of memorys and imagination that then build up through associations. Take "Streetdance", where this joy to build mix with inspiration from youtube-videos of the dance "Jerusalema". The dance where groups from every corner of the world let loose in happy dancing. My art-students tried to teach me the steps.
The bear has an iron-ring around the neck and an iron chain to keep him in control. I and hopefully also Honeypaw now seems to have freed ourselves and gotten loose in color joy and rythmic rhombs. Spontaneously but with structure just as in dance. Both worry and cheerfulness, surprising to paint and behold have been released. If you ask Honeypaw and me, reality is more alive in this way.
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