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6:17am February 27, 2012

kwhynot:

youneedacat:

[Two pictures of a painting. One is framed on a gallery wall, with reflections interfering. The other is the same painting scanned piece by piece on a small scanner and spliced together. The painting is a rainbow-colored fat woman sitting underneath stars and the moon. One hand is up in the air, and she is leaning on the other hand. Her toes are wiggling. The background is dark green, blue, and purple.]

I wish I was as good at doing image descriptions for screenreaders as the gallery people were at writing audio descriptions for blind people. I never knew it was possible to describe my paintings well in words but they managed it.

This is the painting that I did that’s at the gallery right now. It was rather weird to see people go by and use language I couldn’t understand to describe it. :-P Nobody believed I did it with my fingers instead of brushes. Except for one person who paints with her toes sometimes. One of my friends was glad I paint fat people sometimes because she says there aren’t enough people who think fat people are worth painting. Which seems weird to me but then I’m a fat person so what would I know.

I like how you stylized the midnight sky, especially the moon. The green paint looks more or less smudged, but I kinda like that effect; they resemble treetops, sort of. Also, the dots you did for the white stars. I wonder how you did that.

I’m curious about the posture of the woman. Why is she looking behind her? Why is she raising her arms backwards, as if throwing something behind her?

Honestly I don’t know. She just turned out like that. I don’t always know what my paintings mean. They sort of happen. And then I have to figure out what’s going on as much as anyone. Wish I could give people better answers about things like that. I actually sometimes halfway through think something’s going terribly wrong because I can’t fit it together. But then it fits itself together and it actually works. Brains are weird.