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| Somewhere Far Away, September 2014 |
Somewhere Far Away
This depicts a scene from memory, albeit a faded one...
Story time!
I don't mention it often, but I have epilepsy. Before
it was diagnosed, I had a couple of experiences that the doctor called 'petit
mal seizures'--a feeling of disjointedness, disconnectedness, as though in a
dream.
However, unusually for those seizures (also called absence
seizures), I was aware of them, and also experienced what I can only describe
as having a dream whilst being fully awake.
Although all my senses were in the present, within my mind I
was also standing in the sun on a black-painted balcony, gazing at a sparkling,
calm azure sea and little houses just off to the side. In this 'dream', I knew
that a lady with long, dark, wavy hair and tanned skin, dressed in flowing
orange, would step out onto the next balcony and look out across the sea.
All the time this was going on in my mind - which must have
only been for a few seconds - I was still physically seeing and hearing
everything going on around me.
It was a weird experience and the more interesting 'scene'
from the two similar experiences I had. The other was a darkened film set,
which was always behind me. Have I broken the Matrix?!
This kind of thing only happened a couple of times, and
since being on medication hasn't happened at all, so those strange experiences
(which the doctors could never explain).
As for the technical aspect of this painting, it's not my
best. I haven't used acrylics for a while and evidently can't paint people very
well! I tried to create a 'fish eye' effect but it didn't really work. I should
have used a panoramic-sized piece of paper in order to show a wider angle of
view.
Still, at least the sea turned out more or less the right
colour!
Medium: Acrylic on
acrylic paper
Size: A5
Size: A5
This is painting #34 for the following goal:
#55. Create 52 paintings in 1 year
Some haven't been posted yet, and I have until the end of
February!
That kind of experience is really interesting! Have you ever seen either of those scenes in another dream or anything like that?
ReplyDeleteAlso, the colours you've used remind me of Tuscany (not that I've actually been there...) and sea looks gorgeous!