MEMORY OF A DISTANT SEA (1999)
Acrylic on Canvas - 20” x 16”
Whenever someone asked me what I do for myself, up until 1987 my answer was always my illustration because that’s what I chose to do. That’s all I envisioned myself doing, but something happened. 1/3
Ideas started coming to me that were not attached to stories. They’re more connected to an alteration of my vision.
Joni Mitchell said that artists are people who perceive the world in metaphors. I don’t think that was true of me when I was younger, but it’s definitely true of me now. 2/3
When I catch myself doing it, I step back and say isn’t it cool that’s happening, but there’s another practical side of me that says this is really important and this is something I should use in my art to express the things I want to express. 3/3
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Michael Whelan
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