Extinction 08#4

now this is Extinction! shattering ice (melting polar ice caps) storms and vicious winds and erupting volcanoes!

Beautiful work. It has so much energy and it evokes such emotion.

I like the mysterious blue grid. Great stuff!

raw tenuous full of energy fabulous k

amazing!

Vibrant and exciting. You’ve captured the nanosecond ending. Brilliant!

Nice work…would love to see it in “the flesh” full size

Love this wonderful abstract painting…

Great control and technique

A very nice picture!

very very interesting. I like it

the red is striking and boldly captures the title… Great work

Subtle and masterful, amazingly done. Just brilliant work!

wonderfully done, love your technique, great use of colour and movement

A very imported aspect of extinction at the present time is our attempts to try and preserve critically endangered species. As we know the extinction of one wild species can have a knock on effect on another, causing further extinctions. These are called Chain Extinctions. I think this painting is very interesting, because the red lines preserve the energy of the animal. Keeping it safe and protected. Like is Feng Shui. Wonderful Kafka!S

You have a wonderful portfolio. peace…

It’s got a little Pollack going on. Love this.

i love the striking colours…

aweosme strokes and colors

splendid
so vivid
thumbs up

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Karon Melillo …
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how cool the forums For Critique link !! ok first i saw your art :)) then i clicked on the link, and here i am ! so without reading anything on this inspirational piece, i would like to add my comment quite simply, i like the depth of field and random yet not somewhat splashes of brilliant colours ~ lines and angles ~ it has balance and fluidity. i really like it


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Karon Melillo …
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and now i have scrolled back up to the top and read your first message and this is my impression (without reading any of the other comments) my impression is that this is a fantastic ( i had to say that ) rendition of a whale, perhaps an orca, swiftly rising up out of the turbelent sea, may be there is a family of orcas churning up the waters, and there is great splatterings of blood all about ~ but then immediately after i thought this i wondered if it some kind of bird ~ so there you can see how my mind raced when i viewed your art


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Karon Melillo …
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WOW i just read all the comments and particularly yours WOW i feel kindof stupid HAHAHAHAHA here i am seeing orcas and birds and i completely missed it !! O_O

I did’ nt get the final link?? was the final link your original idea?? my original impression was not of violent extinction ~ but more like the act of survival

I saw it quite the opposite and so indeed i guess i did’nt get it .....sigh…..

of the orca, that was my first impression, (the mighty Orca working together to take a Whale Calf …. teaching their young their skills and art of survival) I saw the churning waters and blood spattering and the rush of the killer whale leaping Up and out of the water with a great upheaval !!

~ see the thing is , i envisioned a waterworld ~ upon first viewing your painting and without being influenced by anything other than my own eyes (of course i had to navigate your links, but still, even when the pages changed, and i could no longer see your painting, i could see it in my minds eye. While i was writing my comment….

~ a quick afterthought was a Raven (but i realized i was distracted by my own experiences ( because i thought the beak is rather pointy and not really like the nose of an orca :)) {it’s true, i think really fast }

and suddenly realized i was comparing a Raven beak to an Orca ( this all happened within a matter of seconds )) I quickly dismissed this idea __)) ~ but then after i had written my comments and went back, read all of the comments, i suddenly thought OMG i have it completely wrong what was i thinking :)) Everyone else (it seems to me) is seeing annialiation and Downward thrust and I saw Quite the opposite !! I was influenced actually in my final thought by the comments and NOT by my original First viewing and since I always give my sincere and foremost opinion in my own mind and not influenced by others, I wrote what I said. . am i right in noticing that you posted this painting approximately 5 months ago, and so (this is how my mind works) you completed your painting earlier this year and yet this was what you were thinking of at that time? i’m just curious because you know i have no idea …. i was just stunned when i began to read the comments in reference to terrorism and may i say “slowly” made the transition and sort of wrapped my mind around it _{~ sort of ~}

:))

I’m sorry ~ i did go on and on with my exhortation ~ What i REALLY want to say is I love your painting .... i cannot remember to tell you how i linked from place to place in RedBubble and suddenly saw your artwork and was compelled to click on the thumbnail which brought me here in the first place.

I think your painting is wonderful and i stand by my first comment :))

You destroyed it ~ OH my god Why! what do you mean something of this kind ~ i think i have entered into something of which i had no intention.. Thank you for clarifying to me that this painting is about extinction when ... i thought it was about survival …. i am saddened to learn that you have destroyed this magnificent work of art and self expression, but i am trying to understand why you did

i’m having trouble with your statement, “The making of the work as a culmination of ideas was the main point anyway” are you suggesting to me that the culmination of ideas came from the comments and the critique of this painting ? Culmination means to me the climax or the highest point.

i apologize for my intensity ~ really ~ i am virgo and i express myself and want the exchange of intellectual thought to understand ~ and since we cannot have this conversation in reality, then i fear that my words come across too strongly

No Problem Karon – If you think about it, extinction/survival are two sides of the same coin, so a work about one can easily contain references to the other – all my work like this is full of layers and puzzles that interact with each other in different ways. The discussions we had were the catalyst for my ideas.
I destroyed it for two reasons – I felt that it was nowhere near good enough to do honour to the subject and for the more conceptual reason that the destruction of the painting mirrored events in real life – ie. the destruction of the towers.
There are lots of ways to read these paintings Karon – it is not really important that the viewer sees them the same way that the artist does (that was another discussion that we had here)

ps. It is not at all unusual for me to destroy work when I have finished with it – here is an example of a very recent painting that involved the destruction of an earlier one.

hi! i read your replies and needed to take a moment to reflect on your eloquence, and i’m not being a jackass, i really mean it ~ i completely understand now, and i thank you for your patience and understanding to reach out and tell me what it was i wanted to know

you are right ~ there is a coin as you say, extinction/survival

...thing is extinction has many interpretations …. in biology it would be the end and dying out ….

but in psychology it would be the loss of a conditioned response …. and i have read that that would be the result of the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement

and while there are many forms of survival as well as extinction not mentioned here,

i think it is important to say that when i first viewed your painting I saw Survival

and that is all i was trying to say

I understand now by what you have told me the catalyst for your ideas and inspiration … and so i now understand your painting ~ and i am glad that you have preserved your photographs of your work since you have destroyed the original painting.

I completely respect your reasons for destroying it ~ and i am moved by it
this tells me you are passionate about your feelings and beliefs and very critical of your own work which is interesting that you opened a “critique” (which i have never seen attached to an art work before) and really sets you apart as compassionate and with deeply spiritual convictions.

not many people in this world have ever seen things the way that i have seen them.
i agree with you completely that it is not important that the view sees the art the same way that the artist does

i want you to know that i very much enjoyed this discussion ~
i added this beautiful art to my favourites several hours ago.

thanks god the sun is rising, it’s almost 7 am and friday september 12 :)) i wish you a bright and golden day

brilliant.

today is 2:30 AM October 23, 2008 and for the first time since i wrote to you my last comment,

i am here now to say Right now ~ i love your work !!

a lot of emotions involving in here!!!! I L O V E I T !

Kafka, I looove this! It invokes poetry within me…It’s like your hand has reached out and held mine as I am transported with total trust into this light storm of pure galactic energy … I’m in the ocean and the waves are HUGE .... wow! thank you

And you have inspired me!

no words can explain this, but it is extremely powerful. very inspirational.