In seeking to 'elevate' a rendering to something more than 'mere' scenic, yet not make a propaganda piece [for those so interested], it helps that there be a central idea consciously being expressed - to me, expressed in metaphoric phrasing because of the multiple 'layerings' that can then be achieved in universalizing the idea... consider, for example, "Generation Gap", a rendering of a brick wall, only one of which is new, the rest all quite old... in so doing, it has taken a well-known phrase and enlarged it to include something not originally considered - and thus opening as it were a door into all similar manner of possibilities, UNIVERSALIZING the idea... yet it does so without explicitly stating a preference to which direction in sense of life viewing - thus avoiding being a propaganda piece and retaining the lever called Fine Art [this work, btw, is 16"x20", so the bricks are actual size, more effectively making the point]... do all fine art need be metaphoric in nature? by no means - yet it does allow for the greatest possibilities in exploring universals in this, our complex world, and allows the artist to show an important idea in a personal manner which could also be shown in another way...
One could then turn the coin, so to speak, and do another [which indeed was so done, but in acrylic and at a much earlier time]which has the inverse - all new brick and only one being very old - and theme/title it "Veneration"... again, a universal statement is made, but the sense of life depends, actually, on the viewer, whether such an idea is seen as positive or negative - despite the obviousness, with the care of the rendering, which way the artist sees it... in this specific manner, it must be said, I found that I cannot, due to my own sense of life, make a negative assessment in my renderings, even as this is objectively the opposite of the other! subconsciously, it seems, I MUST view my world in a positive manner, period...
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