The Edges

Firstly, I have been plumbing the depths of older work for use in posting. This is useful but perhaps not the ideal. In a sense I am apologizing for not having new stuff to post.
On the other hand, I would like this blog to have more content of a non visual nature, that is to say to be more wordy. This then offers a good reason to post anything, picturewise, if not just my past work. For it is the ideas behind and subsequent thoughts on the work that is what I am trying to express. I also admit freely this is an effort to express myself more so than having something I want to express.Does that make sense?
With that said, what do you see below you? Why is this post called "The Edges"?

I have on many occasion confessed on over reliance on literal picture making. This picture of a bat is just a picture of a bat and deviates as little as possible from the model (most often a photograph). I think it is fair to say that painting, even if it isn't art, must at some point want to leave such things behind either in bits or leaps. Standing at a crossroads with this objective in mind offers a myriad of direction, perhaps an infinite amount. It is tempting to say this overwhelming but these kind of choices are constant and the nature of the creative process in general. So lets assume some choice is made on some level or another.
I certainly am a proponent of the less is more school. Perhaps the word is "subtle". This is true both in technique and subject matter. However, I have seen some great work that is heavy handed and even crass. Sometimes scrawling FUCK YOU is just the right amount of tact and subtly. Point being that there isn't a universal right thing to do, there are just things to do. But still there is emotion, psychology and social commentary to be had in between the lines so to speak.
For the picture above I am not sure what my intent was. Certainly the juxtaposition of images was a conscious choice. Beyond that is there and inherent commentary there or is it all subjective to the viewer? There is a thousand things that can be contrasted between the obvious two elements. So now my point, I think. Beyond whether there is anything to see there is the question of is it interesting? Is it too obvious? If it is either is it executed in a way that says it well? Perhaps that last question should read "asks it well". Maybe that is the crux of what I am trying to say. There is a way to say things through pictures and art but there is (more importantly?) a way to ask things through pictures and art. Did I ask anything?
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