Eyes
by Ian Anderson
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Title
Eyes
Artist
Ian Anderson
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
DescriptionTHE STORY
In the South West and Kimberly Regions of West Australia, I became intrigued by the pelican’s functionality and family dynamics. Watching them in graceful flight, feeding, sleeping and in the flock left a lasting impression.
In 1995, I viewed an image in Australian Geographic photographed by Mike Langsford*. The image became the foundation for this Pelican oil painting parable. I made many adjustments from Mikes original, particularly with seagulls and rephotographed the gulls in flight.
The painting was technically challenging to capture the drama I saw. How could I create a “depth of field”** in the painting parable? I wanted to concentrate on the eye as the center of attention. Why the eye? Images are seen by eyes and decisions are made from the perception of what is seen. This revelation of perception inspired me to question the decision-making process in what we see.
* Used with permission
** Depth of field is a photographic term for in-focus area giving a 3D effect
The unhappy parabolic oil painting artist and a frightened seagull
I wasn’t happy with the way the frightened gull’s wings were in Mikes original photo. I chose Goat Island Marine Reserve, New Zealand and with my mother in tow I had her throw bread in the air for the gulls to devour. The camera pointed toward the heavens, I lay on the ground and captured the image of my vision. The image was to have wings in a certain place of movement.
I also set myself a challenge to create non-light areas like the black of the feathers without using black paint. Ask me how I did that and I will tell you. I also wanted to get an airbrush effect just using oils and brush strokes.
A developing story
The story developed as I painted. I discovered an amazing creature in the Pelican.
Then I went into this diversion. The bill/beak and the pouch are like the trunk of a car. When we go food shopping we put our goods in the boot to take home and then separate them into their different receptacles for use later on, which of course will sustain and fuel our bodies needs. The pelican uses its bill to capture food to transport into its pouch for separation to different regions in its body after chemicals break down the food. The process converts to fuel and sustains energy for living. These are essential for Pelicans needs, like ours, to collect and store food.
Now back to the main parable in this Pelican oil painting. Interestingly, as I was painting I asked this question;
Why was the seagull frightened?
1 – Was the pelican attacking the seagull for being in the pelican’s safe space?
2 – Was the seagull frightened, unnecessarily, while the pelican washed its bill and pouch in the act of Pelican domestics.
3 – Was the Pelican masterly devouring unseen fish for dinner with no interest in the seagull?
I will never know, but the truth is the seagull was frightened. Only one reason for the 3 thoughts was worth being afraid of.
The intent of the painting
In the process of painting I reasoned, there are times when unreasonable fears invade our heart and we don’t know what is a good fear to take notice of or bad fear to reject. This is all a part of seeing both externally and internally. The natural eyes see the world, the eyes of the heart dream dreams and the eyes of the spiritual hunger for what is true.
Eyes are necessary for seeing and making choices. Eyes need light to see but the difference is in how you perceive and then take action. There is natural light to see the outer image, there is inner light and that light may be dark (fear, bad memories, etc) which counsel the heart to take a course of action. What were the seagulls motive to fly off?
The Parable
Here I discovered, “The greatest gift God gave to man is not sight, it is vision because sight is a function of the eyes which see the natural world and vision is a function of the heart which is the true essence of the human spirit”.
Dysfunctional hearts fear incorrectly. Impaired interpretation comes from dysfunction. A truly functional and healthy heart will make decisions on the correct interpretation of vision and that is wisdom, the true elixir of life on earth. This can only happen in the fullness of knowing the creator who gave us a vision in the first place. His vision within us will always guide us into emotional intelligence and making right choices, despite what happens outwardly.
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