Playground IV

Scetchbook Project — Some States of Chaos

On the work table today is what you see above — a two-page Sketchbook spread of erratic lines and sprinkles of ash and red sparks riding along with blurred evidence of flooded places. I am calling this one NUTS.

The various “fixtures” are like nuts that secure screws. And appropriate, to my way of thinking to the screwy, nutty natural disasters all beating on the US at this time in history.

I think the square/round things are also a confusing mix of traffic signals — a kind of Rube Goldberg solution for an ever changing situation. If the colors have to do with traffic signals, notice that they all say caution or stop — none of them indicate that it is safe to go! (Except to evacuate — they must be blinking like crazy.)

Of course I am reading into this — thinking and painting my thoughts as the world gets chastised and penalized for the sins of the inhabitants. Or so it seems to me.

I suppose our familiar world was sculpted in ways like hurricanes, fires, blasting winds and angry oceans, many times during the ages. What the people experienced, they either did not record (pre history) or the records made have long since washed away.

Are we seeing what might well be described as a “sea change”?

In any case, it makes for good emotive late night/early morning attacks on the paper of a small sketchbook.

— SGHolland © September 6 2017