When I see a harvested corn field with its remnants strewn across the ground and stubs still anchored in rows, it reminds me of those huge landscapes by Anselm Kiefer filled with history, blood, and fragments of past struggles. I have a lively imagination when it comes to corn fields. Do you know the passage in Walden where Thoreau describes his battle with the weeds, as if he was a warrior in the Trojan War?
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Slain Corn Field
When I see a harvested corn field with its remnants strewn across the ground and stubs still anchored in rows, it reminds me of those huge landscapes by Anselm Kiefer filled with history, blood, and fragments of past struggles. I have a lively imagination when it comes to corn fields. Do you know the passage in Walden where Thoreau describes his battle with the weeds, as if he was a warrior in the Trojan War?
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This is a great one!
What a fantastic painting, I can hear the sounds of battle. Love how it's composed, you've done a great job!
Wow, powerful image! The red corn stalks really add to the feeling of a battle having occured in that field!
Marcia, Nika, and Donna, Thank you. I guess I was being a little melodramatic. But a couple weeks earlier I saw the cornfield before it was cut down. Stately, proud, fruitful...
This is FANTASTIC. So many textures and colours - the everyday made beautiful and intriguing. And I can see why such scenes make your imagination run wild. You have Kiefer's textures going on here...Love Kiefer. Love the reference.
Caroline, Thank you. I find it amusing that my picture is 8x10 inches, while Kiefer is usually 50 times bigger.
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