Cheers, Wes. Someone asked Dylan if he had been influenced by someone else, and he replied something along the lines of, "Open your ears and you are influenced". I'm influenced by everything I see. But it's nice you got something from my images and our conversation.
I don't know why not all abstracts work, and I'm not sure this one does, and I can't say why. Maybe those old ratios - the Golden and otherwise - still matter, help guide the eye. People can't help themselves - and often enjoy - seeing "things" in the image which are completely unrelated to it. My wife thought one of my Forth Bridge shots was a penguin. She thought this was hilarious, and I was taken aback for a moment, but then I saw it too, and I can't now view that image without seeing a bloody penguin! So I'm loath to say what I see here.
There are strange forces at play in abstract work which are hard to pin down, and even harder to generate. Jackson Pollock's works always look "balanced" somehow. I find that intriguing.
What I do like in your image is the "floating" colour. I'd talked before about how the colour of an object is the spectrum of light it hasn't absorbed, it is left on the surface. Here the surface is drifting apart from the object, so could be said to have more of a truth in it, or reality about it. I just find that philosophically interesting.
I also think it's good to upload here not just our best shots, but things we are not sure about, or even don't like. Sometimes they are more interesting because of that.
