Fred, I just got something you've been saying for months. I was sitting there gazing at some photos I took, and noticed a face behind the leaves and branches. Some of the leaves and branches were part of the secondary features, while others were hiding the face, as if in the foreground. If I sort of let my gaze stare uncritically at the whole of the image, I could lock in an image that was really quite striking, and almost a little spooky. I imagined someone like David McCallum (He is best known for his role as Illya Kuryakin, a Russian secret agent, on the popular television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.), but if I then shift my gaze into a critical analysis of what I was looking at, it was less impressive.
So I thought, if I could paint, I mean <b>really </b> paint so well that I could capture that image of what I was seeing, to make it as impressive as it seemed to me in that "gazing" state, wouldn't that be something? I'm talking about capturing the image of an Illya Kuryakin-like figure, hiding behind the open leaves and branches, staring after some unknown enemy, in the <b>exact way</b> that my mind was conjuring it, so that it <b>looked like</b> it was shadow art, and not painting!! And then photograph it, such that no one could tell the difference between that and what you're doing! Would that be a mind-blowing variant, or what?
But, the point is, now I understand what you meant when you said, "either I'm the greatest artist in the world, or my shadow art is what I say it is." (paraphrasing).
"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." --Andre Gide
"So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face." - Yogi Berra
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