Blowing past a static gaze
As if Hera blew her legs
over hero-shadows. Her flying feet,
her pearl-shining momentum
obscures my steadfast stare.
To shame me of my flesh and blood
NB
My interest here is to create an ethereal figure glympsed as someone who mocks me. a 'pearl-like shine' needs development and the background will be made on board with worked in oil paint mixed with plaster or texture medium to create an opaque interest. I could do glazes over the whole when finished to look like it is farther away. Her strength in this sketch comes out and denies the ephemerel look that I wanted. A further study of glazes and method in painting will produce I hope the 'obscurity' of antiquity. Her image is wholly imagined and it seems(rather I have not found so far)there are not pictures of these racers from the time.
Reference - Collingwoods theory of aesthetics abbreviated in Aesthetics the classic Reading, edited by David E. Cooper. 1997: Blackwell Publishing,Oxford. pgs 261-262
When Berenson (speaking of Cezanne) speaks of tactile values, he is not thinking of things like the texture of fr and cloth, the cool roughness of bark, the smoothness or grittiness of a stone, and other qualities which things exhibit to our sensitive finger-tips. (bu t) ...but of motor sensations such as we experience b y using our muscles and moving or limbs. ...imaginary motor sensations. ......In short: what we get from looking at a picture, or even stride about the gallery; what we gewt from looking at a picture is not merely the experience of seeing, or even partly seeing and partly imagining, certain visible objects; it is also .....the imaginary experience of certgain complicated muscular movements.pg 261
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