Thread: Mum and Dad exhibition.

Originally Posted by powderpost

Anne Marie, I think it is very, very nice. I do agree the white is a bit too white, I think the effect in the first photograph where the white seems to be a bit subdued, not only looks better but more suits the theme. Well done..
Jim

Thanks JIm. I think its a bit white too, but I didn't want to muck around with it soo close to the deadline and risk having to make yet another tiny table. But my ideas did evolve through doing it all in icing, so the really white finish kind of evokes that as well.

I like it also TL but
No one has responded to your initial comment about what it is about. Please explain. I'm a bit thick sometimes, what is the significance of the soldiers?
Cheers, Ian

Well I'm gonna go against the general concensus here and say the white is just right Any more colour and it wouldn't give the cloudy, dreamy old memory quality it has . . . . Love it

I like it too. Color is alright, and you can still see the grain. the glass dome is a nice idea. looks like you just caught a memory inside. These little soldiers remind me how much I liked to play under the table. World was looking different from here !

Originally Posted by tea lady

(Won't tell you to much about it because I want to know what you guys see in it. )

Wow TL I think it's just brilliant! Very thought provoking!

I think the white is perfect - leaves the colour to the onlookers memories, yet the wood grain shows through, which is nice. It's like a moment caught in time in the glass bell.
What I see is Saturday mornings when I was small. The house would smell of strong coffee and freshly baked continental cakes and Mum's friends would come over and talk about the old country and sometimes tell the most amazing stories of during the war. One of Mum's friends would always knit while talking and knit fast.. very fast...I was always amazed at the skill of this lady.

Your sculpture has made me think of things I haven't thought about in over 30 or 40 years. Unfortunately everyone in this memory has passed on but it is nice to think about them all again and with such fond memories.

Thank you TL. I think your sculpture is PERFECT!

Tea Lady,

I think it is lovely. For some reason it reduced me to tears. Maybe because my parents have been gone for years. Dad in 1990, Mum 1996.

I like it!!!
The white makes the table resemble sandstone (? well to me it does). Yes the dome does capture a memory. (Memories don't have to be in colour) Well done and well thought out. I hope as you exhibit it that you get the praise it deserves

The white has a unifying effect without preferencing anything over anything else. Works as a very personal type of portraiture too perhaps?

Originally Posted by Paul39

Tea Lady,

I think it is lovely. For some reason it reduced me to tears.

Really? .... that's great........ I think.

Originally Posted by chambezio

I like it!!!
The white makes the table resemble sandstone (? well to me it does). Yes the dome does capture a memory. (Memories don't have to be in colour) Well done and well thought out. I hope as you exhibit it that you get the praise it deserves

ta.

Originally Posted by raav

The white has a unifying effect without preferencing anything over anything else. Works as a very personal type of portraiture too perhaps?

Yes, unifying. Haveing everthing colouful would have bee distracting I think.

Originally Posted by Featherwood

Wow TL I think it's just brilliant! Very thought provoking!

I think the white is perfect - leaves the colour to the onlookers memories, yet the wood grain shows through, which is nice. It's like a moment caught in time in the glass bell.
What I see is Saturday mornings when I was small. The house would smell of strong coffee and freshly baked continental cakes and Mum's friends would come over and talk about the old country and sometimes tell the most amazing stories of during the war. One of Mum's friends would always knit while talking and knit fast.. very fast...I was always amazed at the skill of this lady.

Your sculpture has made me think of things I haven't thought about in over 30 or 40 years. Unfortunately everyone in this memory has passed on but it is nice to think about them all again and with such fond memories.

Thank you TL. I think your sculpture is PERFECT!

Thanks. That is what the souldiers are aboout. The war stories finally coming out and being talked about 50 - 60 years later. My dad was in Japanese Prison of war camp in his teens. ( In Ambon. His family were in Jakarter when they were invaded. ) He did say a few things about it when we were little. Mainly about how he was always hungry so we had better eat our dinner. :S More of the hair raising stories have come out recently. So the "war" is always in the background.

very nice.....especially the way the light reflects about.

Hi TL,

For what its worth, I think its a lovely piece. I'm wondering though... are we seeing wood grain through the paint or the light reflections of imperfections in the bell glass? It doesn't matter either way to me but I'm curious.

As for colour... I reckon you have done well. White is symbolic of purity and memories of this nature are a sacred thing. If you put colour on any one object then the whole focus changes to that object which detracts from the other objects and defeats the purpose. On the other hand if you colour everything I think you run the risk of it getting too 'busy'. Childhood memories are simple not complicated. Its only later as adults that we begin to fill in the underlying circumstances that must have been present, but of which we were childishly innocent at the time.

I reckon you've nailed it. Congrats.