new work: isn't red the softer color?
isn’t red the softer color?
Maybe it’s the flow of the atmospheric rivers or how bright the winter sunsets are — if I sent you a picture would you be able to tell? —
or maybe it’s that I didn’t know the snow could stay for so long, and fall so low on the distant mountains, and how bright its white is, how it now appears in little moments, constantly,
bright white in my everyday in a way that makes me realize that I believed white to be unnatural, yes — not real —
a false promise to a virgin that never was and something untouched, an abstract idea, really, in a way that makes me realize maybe the truer color is red, scarlet ‘like our sins’ but, isn’t red the softer color?
and are we sinners really?
isn’t red rushing through our veins and flushing the cheeks of babes, a sweet pink, a little giggle, and isn’t it comforting: the reds and pinks of a winter sunset set against a blue grey sky with the bright white of snow in the distance?
Maybe it is all that, and I’d like you to see it, but if I sent you a picture, mailed you a square of that sky to the big city, would you be able to see it all, at all, really?
“isn’t red the softer color?” is a new acrylic on raw canvas painting. the canvas measures 24” x 30” and is framed in a 1.5” deep, pale maple floating frame. the floating frame hangs slightly off the painting’s edge and features no glass finish, so the texture and color of the canvas can shine through.
the painting is from a new series of work, inspired by thinking of dear ones who live in cities — and my desire to capture a square of the desert sky for them, to hang and to have in their homes.
which is really to say, it’s inspired by my desire to share the beauty i experience with others, and the romance in the idea that an experience can never truly be shared and to be instead content with sharing an impression of it.
to purchase this painting, reply back to this e-mail or send me a note at hi@alexmaceda.studio.
$1550 includes US domestic shipping and tax. the painting ships framed.