Not all compositions are exaggeratingly inspired, or particularly moving, or totally fresh, or even exceptionally clever. Some compositions, including "Inspired by denim, a prussian blue pencil, and the linearity of the moment", are designed with a much more commonplace goal in mind. I needed something casual, something "worn", like a pair of jeans. Exactly like a pair of jeans. I wanted the blues in the piece to look faded and comfortable. I wanted the linework to calm (thus the heavy horizontality (nice word, eh? I'm such a Smithy of wordage)) and sooth and reflect a quintessential frumpiness.

So I did a little homework, and pulled up some graphics from the levistrauss website. All the blues and grays are derived from a couple of pairs of jeans found there. I studied the seamwork and stitching and rivoting and belt loops, placed these within the larger composition of basically square patches of emulated fabric, and voila! Abstracted levis set against a warm gray and pink(ish) background. I even threw in a hint of the Levi's tag, the little magenta rounded rectangle in the upper-left quadrant.

For me, this piece is supposed to work as a backdrop, a decorative element that does not scream out for attention, but instead, is intended to work with other environtmental accessories as support, as something related but not contending for dominance. It's a "dressed-down" composition of cool blues and grays complimented with touches of pink and magenta, meant to fit in, be cool, chilled out and maintaining its distinct sense of self. Well, maybe not all that, but the words were just kind of rolling off my keyboard so I went with it just now.

Is there a more profound connection of this piece with a Platonic Eidos? Does it confirm a sort of Kantian Universality or perhaps hints at a Hegelian Phenomenology? I don't think so. But then, what do I know? I'm just an artist, a medium for the divine discourse to filter through and present itself, a catalyst for the That which exists outside of me, within me, and both without and within me, a Tat Twam Asi, you see. If the great Oneness chooses to unfold itself to you from the confines of "Inspired...", then so be it. It won't ask my permission.