Description
Moonlight Sonata by Francine Roche Kay
fluid acrylics, acrylic paint
18 x 24 inches
Statement: This piece is called Moonlight Sonata. Five different traditional and fluid acrylic techniques were used to create this painting.
It shows the moon bordered on both sides by golden rays crisscrossing through it and the stars around. From below, smoke in shades of gold passes through the moon. As the smoke disperses into space, it transforms into innumerable golden fragments taking with it some of the whiteness of the moon.
This painting is all about the borders--whether societal, cultural, religious, or ones we create for ourselves--surrounding us, and how we break through them. The moon represents the self. The smoke and the fragments shows that as we break through our borders, we are creating new versions or fragments of ourselves, but that we always bring along a part of ourselves during that journey.
Bio: Though I have been drawing and painting all my life, I have only recently decided to pursue art after decades in the sciences. Art, to me, has always been therapeutic. Drawing and painting is what I turned to when I needed to relieve stress, or when I needed to work on a problem without actively thinking about it. I have always felt that my creative side worked hand-in-hand with my analytical side, and I discovered this to be especially true as an emerging fluid artist. As a fluid artist, I deal mostly with acrylics but I am starting to expand into alcohol inks and other fluid media. My background in chemistry has given me insight into fluid dynamics, along with other concepts such as the roles density and surface tension play in different fluids. Approaching and using technical scientific concepts through a different lens--as an artist, as opposed to a pharmaceutical scientist--has broadened my understanding of fluids in a completely novel way. Needless to say, this has been an eye opening journey and I look forward to delving further into this exciting art form.
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