Dementia

Thank you for all your lovely comments Heather. This piece reminds me of the story "The Yellow Wallpaper" if you haven't read it, I suggest it as a good, but sad reading. It's a short story, but your title fits the story line perfectly! I love the colors in your work! Very vibrant!

Thanks dear Bruce. I have posted a comment on your Clinical Depression.

This seems to me a much more cheerful "mindscape" than your title indicates nor your so very accurate note. I guess it just depends on how we individually feel about colors, because I find this painting attractive and quite pleasant, and also well done, as I think most of your paintings are. Here's a personal detail that might interest you and others, Heather. I have a painting I call CLINICAL DEPRESSION. It is the result of setting out to try to present some of that feeling, knowing it very well myself (indeed, I am sure that many FAA people consider my mental problems and deficiencies to be much deeper and wider, and I do confess also to being diagnosed with more than my share of dementia for my age and education). Serious depression frequently results from the aspects of dementia that you describe in your note. My painting consists only of shades of black to gray to dirty white (which is what I call it when you put black paint on canvas and then scrape it as clean as you can with a palette knife). I chose that color knowing it is a trite one for being "blue." I used only a "knife," and so far as I know the various sickle shapes that I made have no resemblance to anything outside my skin, though they did require some thought and revision as the painting and I went along. I was quite doubtful that it would be of interest to anyone if posted on FAA, but then I decided to last July. And week after week it has been viewed many more times than any of my other paintings. But no print has been bought and far fewer comments have been left than would be a usual ratio from my visitors, I think – no data; the difference is just so very obvious. So, go figure.