Artwork Description
Marietta Leis – Eclipse 3
Dimensions: 11 x 14 x 2″
Year:
Medium: Flashe, copper leaf, and panel
ECLIPSE (hidden and revealed)
Eclipse is a series of paintings of Flashe© and copper leaf on panel and linen. The series came about from my infatuation with the idea of a black surface that would not reflect at all—an echoless environment. Black has been a thematic visitor in my work for a while. Mystery, fear, discovery, velvet, night etc.…all intrigue me I pursued this evasive black relentlessly for several weeks. After many trials I arrived at Flashe©, a black that one sinks into and doesn’t return, a black hole.
I then began to think of light trying to creep over the edges – like that of an eclipse when the light of the sun limns from the obscurity of darkness. The play of light and dark, what was dominant and what was subsumed, bifurcated and partial, became the intention of the work. The paintings speak to the sublime and offer glimpses into the infinite landscapes of the internal and external.