"Ven Diga 2.3" or "The Emotional Connotations of Color"

Semi Abstract Consequentialism

Here is another example of the words Yo Ven Diga appearing in the title of my work. That alone makes this piece a little more valuable than the rest.  I will have to say that is one of the most colorful yet blandest pieces I have ever finished.  This painting was actually hard to finish, I had to make myself apply the paint at times.  I can see a painting finished about halfway through, even though there is no sketch, and it is pointless in my mind sometimes to finish them because I can already see the ending.

I love the composition, but the colors are just insane.  The flat paint and the raw brush strokes seem to compliment each other.   It has a very muted and pastel feel to it.  Like several of my works it has two working titles.  One is “Ven Diga 2.3” which again gets explained in the description of my work entitled “Vasta Gucho, Me Amore:  In English”.  The words Ven Diga appear randomly on the edges and backs of many of my paintings. 

The hope is that one day some curator or collector will try and figure out why.  There really is no reason why other than I like the sounds of the words, and that they themselves don’t exist without me.  They are consequential syntax, ha!  The other working title is “The Emotional Connotations of Color”.  This is a little harder to explain.  The connotation means just this “an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning” so apply that to the movement of the shapes with their corresponding colors and you have the idea.  This title works well and continues to speak and explain the painting as you view it.  It now becomes very living.