Literally Paintings // Death in MidSummer
"Literally Paintings" is a series of 16 x 12's based the short fiction collected in "Death in Midsummer & Other Stories" by Japanese Avant Gaarde writer Yukio Mishima.
"I wanted to make a poem out of my life" - Mishima (1925 - 1970)
While literary paintings focus on adherence to the narrative and the evocation of what is expressed through text; literally paintings explore the (cognitive) process of creating paintings. The authoritative narrative is transformed by blurring fictions between the written stories and the artist's personal memories, experience and subjective interpretation.
"I wanted to make a poem out of my life" - Mishima (1925 - 1970)
While literary paintings focus on adherence to the narrative and the evocation of what is expressed through text; literally paintings explore the (cognitive) process of creating paintings. The authoritative narrative is transformed by blurring fictions between the written stories and the artist's personal memories, experience and subjective interpretation.
