I don't really know, but something about the shapes and their relative distances to one another got me interested in this abstract painting when I was playing around with different ideas. As most artists know, form and line as well as color are really important for getting a picture right.
I am not so sure about the colors. They resulted more from a spontaneous selection as a result of painstaking analysis. Especially the magenta seems to be fitting here. I'm not sure exactly why though.
The lines are quite obvious here. They fill the painting and connect the various geometrical shapes in a way that still leaves room for the dark blue background to protrude into the viewer's eye.
I am not so sure of the blue circle in the middle. Is the color right? What about it's shape? Is the size right, the position good? I guess perhaps I could turn it upside down?
This does seem to look more like a stickman figure. Although, again, perhaps the blue circles are out of place? Maybe they should represent the head of this inter tangling of shape?
The first version of the painting suggests to me upon closer inspection somewhat of a face. Or am I imagining things? Although I can force myself to see one in the upside down (second image) as well, it seems to be more naturally protruding from the first image. Perhaps it is just some subconscious feeling. But then again, what can't really be traced back to the ocean of undercurrent feelings and thoughts which make up the more intricate patterns of the self?
So again, I turn the image. Enlarge it a bit. And again that face looks at me.
It must be a human tendency to see faces in all the things--even in the most unlikely shapes and lines. Or perhaps it reminds of an archaic symbol which Jung so often talked about and is rooted in our collective unconscious...