This is the 2nd studio painting since I started renting a place on the lake near the Howard el. This one is called "The Fortune Teller". This image was thought provoking for me while I painted it and interesting as subject matter. It is a mix of Asian and Persian objects and had me thinking about China and Pakistan as allies which they are. Also about the "Silk Road Trade Routes and the cultural exchange occurring there. It now seems to me that pre-Islam Persia is THE missing aesthetic link between East and West and that art invested in historical Persian culture can appeal best to both Western and Eastern sensibilities. Such positive and rewarding associations are subdued in modern non-objective abstraction which appears more often concerned with technique and surface qualities.
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