While it is nice to think that, given the quality of needing forethought in rendering with pen and ink, there can be a sense that all then produced are masterpieces, would that such were true... the fact is, tho, with all the best of intentions, not everything 'makes the cut'.... this, for instance, is one of them, at least to my own judgment - 'The Birthing Tree', 40"x27"... the idea was an offshoot from my 'Mother Lode' of the tree, but with part of the original of that transformed into not a series of isles amidst receding water, but layers of retreating rock formations... it was intended to use the metaphor of birthing to refer not only to an old literal use of a place where women went to actually give birth, but as the primary from which other vegetating [or life affirming] took place, extended beyond the original boundary... unfortunately, it did not quite fill the bill in as much an impact as had first envisioned... part of this was from technical reasons - trying for a colored landscape with pens without being too garish of the colors, yet being able to have a 'translucency' to the rendering... also, this was another constructed figure, even as actually had a pregnant woman pose to get the belly part valid.... and finally, not all the views I have in my mind seem as clear as others, and it can at times be hard to 'see' the work clearly enough to render it as wish [the imaginary world sometimes has fog, and as thick as any in this world]... still, there is nothing of regret in having done it - the theming is there, and it is a respectable rendering - just that it is not to the caliber of other works...
I would add that, since am not fully pleased with this rendering would I be doing another of it? Possibly - tho not with this same theme/title most likely, but as a variation of it, just as this is, in its way, a variation of 'Mother Lode'... and in that manner be able to improve on it, after my own fashion...
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