Re the prior post. Memory is funny. I went to look at the Registration Desk painting I’d linked to and it promptly spat back at me one particular video I was listening to when working on the carpet and one of the walls of the yellow-green lit back room. Now we have all those other areas of the painting and all the other things I might have been listening to, but what it spat back at me was my working on that one area while I was listening with H.o.p. to a Cosmeo science video on dinosaur footprints and whether or not a particular set captured the movements of a predator closing in on its prey and nabbing it (the second set of footsteps disappear mid-stride). The nonacademic dino-obsessed individual who found the footprints had studied predator movements in relation to prey and believed that the pair showed predation and catch, whereas scientists said no, the prints were probably made at different times and unrelated. After the man’s death, it was eventually thought it would be good to preserve his records in general, which is when one scientist came upon this old argument and all the man’s data on it and revived it, believing the man was right. It seems that scientists now believe the prints were made at the same time, but the majority argument is that the prey just tromped upon some goopey mud and escaped and that this isn’t a record of its being plucked up.
I personally think the second dino became dinner.
Dinos and aliens.
With every painting I work on, I usually ask H.o.p.’s opinion at one point, maybe two or three. Like with the below painting. I had been working on what was to be the final version, but wondered, after having already moved the door in a good bit, if I should further compact the area between the woman, the fire extinguisher and the door. So I cut it up and put them back together to see if this was something I should do. Turned out it was too compact for my liking and I wanted the spread, the eye to wander over that wider spread. That’s how I felt about it. But I wanted another opinion. I called H.o.p. over and showed him the two versions and asked what he thought without giving my opinion. He said he liked the wider spread. OK. I went with the wider.
He sometimes rolls his eyes and would prefer not to be bothered.
His ability to make a critical analysis rather than rely on kneejerk preferences (“I like that because it’s blue and my favorite color is blue and it has more blue”) is broadening. For instance, when asked what he thought of this last one, “Roswell: In Search of the Truth”, he didn’t ask me to put a UFO in it, as he often does. “If you put a UFO in it, people will like it!”
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