I dream a lot about ancient structures, arcades, gates that lead to parallel but alien worlds.
Although I had no intention of painting such a dream image, only practicing the textures on a small piece of paper, the stacks of stacked and blurred colors took me to a strange world.
Images of another planet appeared, with stargates on its surface and inside. When I talk about Stargate, I don’t mean the Stargate film series because there’s nothing modern technology here, just ancient architecture and a lot of crystals, mostly amethyst, that can be seen in the foreground and painted afterwards. The large white sphere gave way in the middle because there was a lack of paint in a regular circle. I didn't plan it that way.
It is amazing what associations some stains of paint bring out of our unconscious (deep conscious) part. It's funny that I was listening to a lecture about Jung while painting ...
I don’t think the picture is a finished work, just a little sketch. I will paint many more similar pictures before displaying the final version on a large canvas.
Here is the painting, a really small one (24x16 cm)
(with a little more contrast and saturation)
Shadows and reflections are far from perfect, but I didn’t even intend to take them seriously.
(untouched photos)
The dark purple gray spots in the foreground could not be interpreted at first, but then some crystals emerged.
Well, next time I’ll look at what a crystal array looks like, how the small elemental crystals shine and refract light.
I haven’t been able to figure out the role of the sphere yet, so I’ll sleep on it to see if my dreams give an answer to it.