Is reality what our brush has painted, or is reality what's left after the paint's been peeled & scraped away?

I've scraped away until the canvas was blank. It's nothing special. Some people tell me their canvas reflects true reality which is scary, because it includes images like dante's inferno if I don't replicate their image onto my canvas. Should I paint a new image?Is reality what our brush has painted, or is reality what's left after the paint's been peeled %26amp; scraped away?
You can scrape your canvas until it is so thin you can see through it. But still no reality. And you can go the other way and paint over the paint and over, and over until it is as thick as a house - and nowhere in all your paintings you will come across reality. Because the only place you'll find that elusive commodity is...... between your ears.


Peace.Is reality what our brush has painted, or is reality what's left after the paint's been peeled %26amp; scraped away?
That is a very interesting angle to look at reality. It seems like we should complete the analysis of the whole analogy.





Whether reality is the painting or what is left on the canvas we would all still be holding different pieces of reality. So why should they even be the same?





However, if reality was meant to be the same for everyone then why paint over it? Never mind the fact that we could paint over it, for what is underneath the paint requires none of our scraping nor peeling. Confirmation simply is not the function of reality.





It seems to be a tough dilemma until we realize that it is meant to be a painting supported by the canvas. Without neither, reality is incomplete. Part of it is meant to cover the canvas and be looked at, part of it is meant to be covered and unseen.





In a nutshell, reality is a painting on canvas. I do not necessary agree with the analogy 100%, but it is how this question iseems to be hinting at.
hi Smiley, it seems to me that you feel you must dissect beauty before you can believe in it. and I (as an artist must inform you that) If you cannot see within our layers, then you have no insight at all. If you think that by taking us apart will give you the thing you think you need to comprehend us then you are so very sadly mistaken. Look within the layers, no at them, It will be then that you might be able to see.
Stare at the canvas for a little. You don't have much time to stare at it forever though. And you have just one canvas. You have to decide.
If you want to be a painter, you have to paint, not just think about it.

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