Watering Can
Pastel on Canson paper
25 x 18 in. 63 x 46 cm.
“Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eon of the gods.”
– Statement made by Buck Mulligan in James Joyce’s Ulysses.
Any object, a tree, some fruit, a watering can, will be ‘intensely regarded’ in my search to understand how forms interact with light and space.
In the process, shapes will be observed, dimensions compared, colors and hues looked at, and lights, shadows and reflections evaluated, so that I can translate the stuff of three dimensions into two-dimensional representations as that ‘intensely regarded’ reality will be transformed into a drawing or a painting.
And hopefully those representations, as mythologist Joseph Campbell defines it, “can yield an experience of the order of no-mind: that is to say, the poetical order… an effect that is neither thought nor feeling…”
It just might be the gate of access ‘to the incorruptible eon of the gods’!
Joseph Campbell’s notes are taken from “A Joseph Campbell Companion–Reflections in the Art of Living”
Selected and edited by Diane K. Osbon.
Harper Perennial. 1991.
BIO
Born in Bogota, Colombia, L. Crump, as he signs his work, started drawing at a very early age studying painting with Spanish Master Painter Pablo Sansegundo, also studying with artist Vivian Wechter in New York City, as well as with painter Jorge Cavalier, and with Lee Willig at the ARTWORKS in Miami, Florida. He graduated from Fordham University in New York and obtained a Masters Degree from Syracuse University.
He has shown extensively in galleries in Colombia and the United States and won First Prize in the New Artists Juried Show at the Hollywood Art Center in Hollywood, Fl. As well as being named ‘Still Life Painter of the Year’ by ADC Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio in 2017.
But he is also an accomplished filmmaker with awards in several film festivals as well as having been a Film Production instructor both at Miami International University of Art and Design and at Broward College.
He lives and works in Miami, Fl.