After a While...

As I've expressed to many, it's been a long dry spell, but stubbornness prevails and my pledge to get to "real painting" (as opposed to smarmy landscapes) has produced A Painting. "While the Lines Were Being Drawn" follows a thread that will be featured in my upcoming Retrospective (Nov-Dec 2013, Carnegie Hall, Lewisburg, WV).What I like about this "creation myth" is the

While the Lines Were Being Drawn   Oilbar on Canvas 44 x 34

luminescence of the orb--life-giving; the foggy, misty rising of
the "void"; the R&F pigments "Burnt Scarlet" and "Sanguine
Earth;" and the upward striving even as (or before) form takes
flesh.

Which led me to a mental riff on flesh.Why would humans evolve
hairless? How is that preferable (i.e., more evolved) than natural,
protective coverings like scales or fur or armor-dillo? Why evolve a naked being who then has to spend time and thought to body covering rather than hunter-gathering? Think of the millions of person hours spent stitching, dying, trying-on, working to make the bucks that will buy a $300 purse (?!!) covering what?
If anyone has a thought about why, if this was good, nakedness is to be abhorred (at least in Monroe County, WV, where even the vaguest suggestion of human nudity in art, for goodness sake, is scandalizing, please comment.

Perhaps the nakedness is some One's idea of proper balance between brain power and vulnerable flesh. Perhaps the nakedness was an important part of humans diversifying into fashion, fossil fuels, McMansions and road rockets. Why?, How?, What? Perhaps the reason the NUDE has been considered the highest form of visual art is because it is completely unexplainable.

From the Womb Oilbar on Canvas 55 x 40

To the Surface Oilbar on Canvas 24 x 14

At any rate, I feel good about working on this painting. Compare it to "From the Womb" (right), another creation myth more about good and evil, or human variety at least. Or "To the Surface," a smaller piece with wonderful texture.

So talk to me about this stuff (assuming it will upload).