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becomes part of you, doesn’t it? EA: Yes, it’s very personal. Often like a first kiss or first time you hear a song, when you see a painting for the first time it touches something. And that’s the hook. Tat’s why you stop and look again. But like any kind of relationship, it grows into something dif- ferent over time and over years.
MS: So this project that we’re discussing is your 2011 calendar? EA:Tis is the first one I’ve done.
MS: You collaborated on this project with Kimberly Narenkivius? EA: And that’s part of the beauty of technology. Here she is walking across Spain with a laptop, and she’s creat- ing my calendar and we’re interfacing back and forth online. I’ll send the images that I thought would work and she does her magic. We’re within thousands of miles of each other, yet something very intimate was created. It’s a meaty publication. Tere’s a centerfold to it, an introduction that Margaret Bisqway wrote as well.
MS: Each month has one of your wonderful paintings. January is titled “Te Keeper of the Light.” What’s the story with that? EA: It’s a lighthouse piece. It’s just a painting of waiting. Of that eternal kind of faith that people possess. It’s very late at the night yet the candle is still burning strong. It’s in the darkest of night and that’s when the vulnera- ble kicks in, so for me that’s what this is about. Te way the whole calendar unfolds is somewhat of a story. Te first painting is the light of the year, because it can be scary to
Alison | painting by Eric Anfinsen
start a new year. MS: And the month of March? EA: It’s a deep painting. Love the rich colors, the offset look. It was hard to decide which painting to use. We had so many so to select from, and Kimberly did the majority of the choosing. I gave her an idea, then she put it all together.
MS:When you take a subject you’re using real models. But do you ever use photographs? EA: Both. Tere’s a chemistry that you can’t create just from a photograph, so the sit-in ac- tually helps alot. Te painting for March was based on a model named Anna, but it doesn’t look anything like her anymore. It morphed into something very different, and that was an intentional thing, which is why we didn’t take pictures. Te painting was allowed to go in the direction it needed to go.
MS:Tere’s a real story in the creation of this 10 KONK Life
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