To:
Monika von Moltke, November 08, 2002. PRIMORDIAL BEING What a glorious primordial being! What a beast! I
celebrate it in the most intense possible way. Unfortunately i cannot see the creation in its totality for
i have to scroll the picture down so that i miss its immensity. Its
magnificence, in all its strangeness, demands to be looked at
with intense care and concentration. My frustration is not being able to grasp the
complexity of the total image. What i find less appealing is the background. It
does not complement the magnificence of the beast-creature.It is too stark.
Perhaps it is what is wanted to set off the figure in all its complexity but
there is a starkness about the background that i do not find appealing. The
beast-creature can stand on its own. It can take on all-comers in the painting
and beat them all. It wants flowers. The creature wants to be wrapped
in flowers. Even a few little white flowers in the background will go a long way
to complement its beauty. It has emerged from a world of beauty and not from a
hellishly burned-out eternity. If it had it would have been devilishly mean,
monstrous, and that it is definitely not. It is so beautiful - no, that is
perhaps not the right word - so wonderfully weird and complex, and yet it does
not feel as if you have overdone it. I feel no forcedness in the image in
contrast to some of the images that you have created in the more recent past. It
is not as if you were determined by structure and form, as i have complained
about at times. In this case, the formlessness of the form seems to flow
naturally, as if it had no creator, as if it created itself. Yet one is forced
to concede that it had a creator, that it has flowed out of you. You created
subtle but nevertheless very powerful nuances simply by playing with texture and
colour. It is through the latter modalities that the primordiality of
the form emerged. I wish i could have been part of its creation. I salute the
creative creation of the primordial being-beast. Thomas Leonard Holdstock |