Eden

Eden

February 3, 2010, 4:09 pm
Filed under: illustration | Tags: chuck palahniuk, diary, eden, garden of eden illustration, illustration

Eden

20″x28″ Acrylic and Ink on Birch Panel $500

I have sat on this piece for a while, waiting for what I felt was the right time to post it to the blog. Then I remembered, there is never a “right time” and I could well be sitting on it for a century before I got it out the door.

My friend and fellow artist Miss Ashley Will posted a quote on her bloggedy-blog by author Chuck Palahniuk that reads:

“When they were in school, Peter used to say that everything you do is a self-portrait. It might look like Saint George and the Dragon or The Rape of the Sabine Women, but the angle you use, the lighting, the composition, the technique, they’re all you. Even the reason why you chose this scene, it’s you. You are every color and brushstroke.

Peter used to say, “The only thing an artist can do is describe his own face.”

You’re doomed to being you.

This, he says, leaves us free to draw anything, since we’re only drawing ourselves.

Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand.

Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.”

Chuck Palahniuk is like %72 badass and %14 bonkers (which makes him %86 worth paying attention to), and he occasionally throws some serious pearls into his otherwise satirical narratives. I suppose this is why I haven’t posted this piece. It feels feels like one of those diary entries you read a year later and chuckle over with a mixture of nostalgia and exasperation. %20 sap, %10 serious, %50 daydream, %80 Tory.

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