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Interlacing Menger sponges in oils. Penciled two sponges on, laid down stripes of drafting tape, painted this first layer with one sponge and background (all in cadmiums), peeled. Now to let it dry for a week or so and then tape the painted bits and do the other sponge in blues in the gaps.
@joshmillard I'm really enjoying looking at that red. It's a very satisfying shade.
@howfar Thanks! That main background red is actually I think the first tube of oil paint I bought, last summer, though I haven't used it a lot recently.
The whole set of colors there are cadmium yellow, cadmium orange, cadmium red, and cadmium deep red, each just straight out of the tube with no mixing.
@joshmillard I think it's the orange against the red, in context regularity of the lines, primarily, that makes it satisfying to me. I get a hint of synaesthesia with some visual things. This gives me a sense of the crunch of celery. Doubt that makes any sense but thanks for inducing it!
@joshmillard My guess is it's (for me) something to do with memory function. I used to get very strong déjà vu and a sort of jamais vu like dissociative experience where I couldn't experience the connections between moments in time (while still understanding them conceptually). Synaesthetic impressions have the same quality to them: a sense of "snagging" the same part of my mind. I wonder if dyspraxia (with poor working but excellent long-term memory) makes me more prone to it.
@joshmillard Of course, even if that's the case, the mediation of those neurological phenomena, by culture, into an experience that I articulate to myself is just as interesting a component of the whole thing.
@howfar Happy to oblige! I've never had any of what I'd identify as synaesthetic experiences myself and find the idea of cross-wired sensory processes fascinating in both neurological and cultural sense.