fog makes me think of something else. do you ever wake up from sleep, especially an afternoon nap, with a strange, distanced sense of your environment? it feels a bit like when you have a cold only fuzzier. sometimes when i wake up, if i am in that half sleep fuzz-filled space where i'm not entirely awake . . . my body feels bulbous, especially my head. it sounds odd, probably is but when i saw the work of joe sorren i couldn’t help wondering if he too has had some of these strange in-between awake and asleep experiences and was depicting what i have sensed but haven’t been able to really show or describe adequately.
image of joe courtesy of webesteem art magazine which is where i came across this interview in which joe is asked about whether or not he sees these images in his dreams . . . .joe's pictures depict bulbous, distended, somewhat melancholy people visiting the beach, in the woods, typing. none seem settled and content. they all have a certain edgy, self-contained quality about them. when i look at joe's people i'm drawn to think that they are like big children . . . compelled to grow up but still hovering in the half world of adult childhood.
here are some of my favourite sorren paintings - all available as limited edition giclee prints at his website.
la luna
loud sing the hours of eden
roar my own little self,
you can drop in on joe’s archive, or
you can zip over to joe’s myspace site and have a look at a slide show of his paintings . . .right here.
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