Welcome to my blog. You can call me Binta.
Last spring I did a series of paintings for my senior thesis, and with these paintings (and a few before them) I departed from my usual naturalistic style- that is, instead of attempting to copy something real that I was looking at, I worked from my imagination alone. I focussed on painting the human form, and I tried to avoid getting caught up in the details of the form.
Have you ever drawn something and really liked it, then tried to recreate the drawing and found that your second attempt just doesn't quite measure up? This happens to me all the time. This was my first painting in the series, so of course it was my favorite:
My inspiration was largely fueled by this verse:
Verse from Goethe
I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element.
It is my personal approach that creates the climate.
It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous.
I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.
I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.
In all situations it is my response that decides
Whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated,
And a person humanized or dehumanized.
If we treat people as they are we make them worse.
If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832
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