I was asked to make a few smaller works for a Gallery in Phnom Penh. As they have one of my original larger art works for re-sale. I envisioned a tryptic called ‘three squared’. A tryptic showing the rivers and waterways that are created by the deluge of the Cambodian monsoon season.

I has some paper and some ink, all I needed was some lotus stalks. Off to the banks of the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers I went to purchase from the Royal Place flower sellers. There I chose some suitable stalks, and back to the ink and paper I went.

With this artwork, I was thinking of a river, gullies and cracks, Some impressions dark and other impressions tapped lightly to create highlights. Once completed I looked, and the rivers were there on the paper with the water flowing from the mighty monsoons, from the clouds that I could see in the skies all around Phnom Penh. My vision for the I artwork was achieved. More artworks of rivers and deltas had been created. 
Interestingly, in a second viewing with an art lover, we both saw it from not above like a birds eye view, but as a landscape with mountains and black clouds of the massive monsoon filling the skies.

I do love how some one can see a completely different aspect, or image in my art. Numerous times I am told someone see something that I have not seen in the art before. How my art speaks in different ways to different people always gives me great joy.


Do you see different things in my art?
What do you see in my art?