Jens Rausch – week 3 | Particles of gold

July 17, 2016

After making some exerimental work with the soot from our fireplace here in the old house, I have to admit that the alchimistic work I tried didn´t work out yet. Learning to be patient!

Sooner or later I will figure out the best way. There will be the time when you find your own gold when it´s the right time for…
Well, I changed the work back into the woods to an unexpected step: I decided to hit on the top of the mountain; taking my not so beloved acrylic colours to get rid of them. Of course I was stopped several time by the beauty of some forest scenes – so indeed I had to paint regardless of the other aim I frankly wanted to reach. Realizing about the forgotten white acrylic colour, I was kind of upset with myself. But instead of sitting and crying I just started to figure out without white. While another wanderer went by wondering and showing interest about my work. In the small short-term conversation I kind of justified about the forgotten white while he replied that you just have to „imagine it“. So that was the point: To imagine! So simple and easy. I started some other works IMAGINING the „non colour“ and the most important meaning of the forest itself: The trees.

Painting a forest without trees by the use of just surrounded colours was such a nice concept and brought my work to an extended branch. Eliminating things not by fire or acid – just not painting them was so simple and makes the work abstract-realistic which I also like to much. I just found some particles of my own gold.

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