Waiting, an oil painting
Time feels very different in India. A feeling of eternity pervades the atmosphere, a feeling that we have known this place forever, that gestures and scenes repeat over and over. One of the complaints you sometimes hear about India is that it operates on IST, or Indian Stretchable Time. The only way to enjoy India is to adopt a different attitude towards time. Giving in to Indian time is a relaxing exercise; the only danger is forgetting that at some point we must return to our western world and reintegrate into a world of linear time.
Eckhart Tolle says that the eternal stillness that preceded the Big Bang exists within us—it’s never gone away. Wandering around India brings this type of feeling into our personal reality.
These two ladies were standing outside of a tailor shop and seemed frozen in time.
Here are a couple of close-ups of the drapery:
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Very good post my friends
I love your palette. The colours are enticing.
I am happy to have just found you and am now following. I am daily impressed by the amazing artists I am meeting and connecting with here on steemit. We really have an amazing artists community here.
Your touch on the fabric is sublime and often toying with fabric in my own pieces, I know that joy of light and colour in the close that becomes dreamy folds as you step further away.
I like that concept of Indian Time. I think sometimes I have a sort of version of that, maybe 'artist time' that during my more down times where I am primarily at home working on art and just living in the void of my own amusement feels very different to say the upcoming Summer, as I rent out a couple places for holiday lets and suddenly I am back to time tables and looking at clocks. It is funny how we can dwell in two separate worlds divided by time.
Hello Donna, and thank you for your thoughtful comments. Yes I think there is "artist time" too. I remember we used to say of my teacher that he was an "ageless" man. Somehow time stops while we paint, suddenly the day is over, and we wonder where it went! Best to you, following you too. Oh and yes there are some excellent artists here on Steemit, in part thanks to Otto Rapp who told all of us to come on over.
Very beautiful, as all your work. I'm always amazed, how you keep a perfect harmony and balance with all those different colors!
Thank you @reinhard-schmid, I do have a passion for color! Glad you like it.
another great painting - upvoted and resteemed
"Indian Stretchable Time" - sounds much like Hawaiian Time - it drives Americans crazy!
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Thank you Otto! Yes time is a very relative concept.
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Awesome art! As you love colours, the Indian motifs are great for you to work on, as they are very colourful, too. Happy to follow you now @@@kathleenscarboro
Thank you @zorank, yes I do enjoy working with color and the India theme.
I've never heard of 'Indian Stretchable Time' but gosh, I laughed so hard at it. As always, your attention to detail is incredible. In this one, I love the blue slipper of the woman. Such an Indian style to wear.
Thank you, @manouche - time is quite different in India and sometimes us westerners have difficulties adapting.
@kathleenscarboro I really like the layer blending technique in your painting and the colour selection and detailing is awesome. Great work indeed...and your love for India shows :-)
Thank you @satishart for your kind words; yes I do love to paint India!