Title: Indifference by harj
Title: Indifference
oil on canvas
2003
by harj
My interpretation;
This painting is one of my first paintings and a favorite of many, its my existential art piece relating to existence, each individual not a society or a religion is solely responsible for adding meaning to your life and you living it.
This juxtapose the absurdity that life has a meaning to only you like love, losing love, memories but to the universe it has no meaning or significance, moreover in essence your life is meaningless and the universe is indifferent to our short existence.
Your joys, your suffering how can one not be in state of despair with your short lived fire in billions of light years of space that came and went. Sound and fury signifying nothing.
I really hope you enjoy my art work please PLEASE I would love to hear about your interpretation if you could leave it below, it will give us all an insight and a better understanding to all of us.
Again thankyou my Steemian family for all your support : ))))))
Big hugs and love
harj
Very interesting how it combines the paradoxical tensions so smoothly. And I really like your interpretation. Good work!
awww thank you raci! i like your view very interesting yes I feel that tension with the stiking contrast! : )
@you commented on one of my posts recently so I thought I'd look at your profile. I like the art piece. Some simple people might say it's all black with a red dot but it is a lot more than that. There's a strory. A feeling it gives off. A very good painting.
Great art work first and foremost @harj I tend to feel sometimes as little or as insignificant our lives may seem to the universe it has its purpose, every action we take as individuals somehow sums up collectively to a grand total, if you see a man at the beach with a spoon shovelling sand you may laugh and say "he'd spend forever doing that" but if he where at it day and night for weeks, months and years to come you'd be amazed at how much sand he had moved, we don't take note of the little things here on planet earth but everything we do sums up in the end. What would be the outcome? I don't know but I'm pretty sure the unexpected is waiting for us all. We marvel and make wishes at shooting stars but they where once a planet before they turned into that ball of flames...that's something to think about, a process occurred for hundreds of years before it got to that stage. Hope that brought a lil clarity? Cheers mate
wow kingzeus I love your summing up and it was so well said!!! we all try to improve our lives give in meaning. like a squirl trying to find a nut and hide it for summer, find a partner, have children love.
Wow brother, really intense! The red one spouts out at the eye. It feels to me like a strong, precise feeling, I could feel it in my chest too. To me it says really obvious force of life in the middle of an environment that lacks feelings or aliveness. I feel very much like this painting when I stay in the city too much lol. It calls for change, or something needs to be taken attention to at least. My 3 cents.
Bravo!
awww thank you ikialyfe I really like your interpretation its lovely x x x
Hello friend, I congratulate you for a beautiful work, for me art encompasses all the creations made by human beings to express a vision. I see a small bird-type animal struggling lonely to get out of that alversity.
Hey!! yes I see that a small bird trying to get out of adversity, thats been echoed a few times here and it is exactly the problem I see. a harsh time for the bird. is that birdy us Luis ? thank you my freind : )
@harj I really like your art style! At first glance I thought it was a bird submerged in water. The way I saw it was although it was fighting against so many odds it was still managing to radiate. Just like I believe our struggles in life create polarity in the positive. You can't really experience one without the other. But sometimes you need to persevere through the struggles to be able to appreciate the rewards. I reminder to never give up. I look forward to seeing more of your art!
You are right @neeqi sometimes in life we need to persevere through the struggle and only then would be able to see the light at the end
Mart I am interested in this construction one must imagine sysiphous happy struggling with his rock.
Hey Neeqi I miss that one! but yes I think thats so amazing a bird submerged in water! and still managing to radiate! Awww thank you for your kind words! I really enjoyed your post My Body Suspension Experience xxx
Yes this painting is like a fish struggling to fight to the top of black murky water. Like an orange black and white goldfish but the water is like mud, thick and full of heaviness like life. Great art @harj. Upvoted
wow thats impressive interpretation Neeqi said somthing simular (a bird) I can see it!!! wow its soo cool to get your view! thank you Happy! : ) giving us insight : ) yes life is like that.
You're welcome keep up the great art. It inspires interpretations like Neeqi and mine
Awww happy yeah my son who is 7 Jensen won a award for his art! I bet your children must love art! : ) you from USA ? Im from the UK.
Very nice congrats to your son. That's great to learn. My children love music and art :) I'm from UK & Germany, my husband @verbal-d is from USA
ahhh Happyharm I love Germany I have many German freinds and I just checked out your husband he is doing very well!!! thank you Happy! aww I will tell Jensen! say my regards to your family xxx with love Harj x
Thank you! @harj I'm honestly filled with such gratitude to be apart of such a supporting and loving community. 💚
AWww yes its nice when you share similar views like happy! i have so much feedback for all of us and so much insight and variation into a art piece : ) this will be documented forever!!! thank you !!! on Steemit for the future!
I also am intrigued by your artwork and you are a wordsmith in to my ears @harj . It's so hard to imagine life without all of you guiding the way for other users any myself. Thank you~
~ If love is all we need then the value of interaction is not a coincidence here but rather the divinity of one another.
Love coins what wonderful words" the divinity of one another" I truly appreciate your help with understanding how spontaneously that happens : ) just by your actions. Thank you love coins
lovely painting @harj! this art work is one of a kind.
Gift that is real kind of you to say! : ) I enjoy reading your gifted words too!
that is great to hear, it look like you just join steemit like me. my advice is that you should keep up the good work and the sky will not even be your limit.
Awww gift that is great advice I will tresure it! thank you : ) to the mooooon!
Great job thanks for sharing with us upvoteddd!!! Done!! Vote me back please check my true story !!
I will support you best I can bro, thank you!
Muy buena tu pintura,me encanta lo abstracto, puedo ver lo que quiera, yo interpreto tu pintura como una chispa, la chispa de la vida. Esa chispa que puede crecer y alcanzar una llamarada o simplemente deja de existir sin ni siquiera comenzar
Awww luna this is very sweet of you to say!!! thank you !!!!
I spent a long time looking at the pic of you and the family (?) thinking 'wow, this is really good for oil painting.'
Only after reading, did I get to the piece you did.
Disclaimer: I'm no art critic. It's very interesting to look at. It seems like the sort of painting that could be viewed again and again without boredom; what you see depends on your moods or what's going on in life at that time. It seemed to me like the primordial soup of life, before evolution began, and the colourful explosions giving birth to everything in the universe.
I'd love to upvote but I've got hardly any voting power.
@anjkara , I did a double take as I was reading through the comments after I had contemplated the pictures myself -
This is where my thoughts actually first went, too! -- my initial thoughts being along the lines of, what is happening here? A burst of creation from a primordial soup... A small flame which will spread warmth and life from the darkness... I was thinking about how interesting it is how something which can seem deceptively simple at first glance can contain so much depth and provoke feelings. Your interpretation is beautiful, I am also not an art critic lol but I thought it was neat that we shared some of the same thoughts.
Hi, @harj ! :) I hope you're having a happy day :) This piece brings an interesting mix of feelings, for me at least. Hidden meanings, creation fraught with struggle. Thanks for sharing it! I would love to see more.
Ah that's lovely. Great minds think alike, as they say. It is a beautiful painting. I'd never get bored of looking at it. Be well, mamatalks
I feel that too like screaming and nothing hears you imagine that. Shouting as loud as you can! I'm happy !!!! And no one hears you. Wow I can't understand that emotion so I decided to paint it. Thank you both of you . You both hear me : )))))
AWWw anj no need to upvote!!! your comments is amazing! and I love the way you describe the pimordial soup of life before evolution began!!!! im glad it has that affect, wow thank you anjkara. #quoteoftheday #givingbirthintheuniverse : ). I also love your lost skills post : ) x x x
i taught it's fire in the ocean but after i looked deeply its art... your art super amazing
awwww Leediana thats lovely for you to say! thats : ))))! I love your anololgy a fire in the ocean. Really like your hena tattoo too x