Had a  rich weekend; got an idea for a painting coming out of issues and needs I currently have, but I also needed to exorcise a daemon, so to speak and the result is a large painting I did in Oil Pastel on Paper which I called The SireN of Jealousy.

SireN of Jelousy – Marshall Sponder 2008 – Oil Pastel on Paper 48″ x 56

I first worked out the idea on for this large painting using my iPhone – and I won’t say that I got the exact thing in the Oil Pastel that I got on the iPhone – the medium is entirely different – I think I carried my idea (above) past what I had on my iPhone.

You can also see how the painting above was generated - except the orientation is wrong on the CollectingSmiles.com site.

Actually, I’m beginning to think that “Art” might be a path for the release and transmutation of base feelings into Gold – a form of  Alchemy.

Consider this – I painted the SireN of Jealousy  to change a feeling I had – I could have acted on feelings in any number of ways – but by acting  in this way – I’m changing one feeling into another.

But what if we continue to work the same feeling/issue, in a series of work that keep evolving – would it be possible that one could actually evolve that way?

And, in evolving – could the work done in such spirit be transformed in viewers?

I don’t know, but I’d like to think, “Yes”.