The World in The Nearsighted Eye: The painter of strabismus paints the world in the myopic eye after the warm light after the loss of focus? Ultimate warm light

10 cm, 5 cm, 1 cm... For any incomparably clear field of view, there is always a distance that makes you out of focus. Within this distance, a world that truly belonged to light and color suddenly arrived. You're not sure where the boundaries of color between things really are in the picture in front of you. At this moment, the blur may bring a hint of anxiety, but you will still feel a soft warm current surging and slowly invading the body...

Phillip Barlow, an artist from South Africa, is obsessed with the idea that "everything is random, there is a design". It is a harmonious philosophical idea that prompts him to discover great beauty in the gravel and dirt of the city too—a beauty that lies between the imperceptible and the unknown.

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Lines and colors visualize the world and allow people to distinguish everything in a "shattered" field of view. Yet in this shattered horizon, people often lose hope, and they see decay spreading, so they become cynical and cynical. Pushing fragmentation to its opposite, Philippe Barlow abstracts realism into a set of magic of light and shadow, and in a graceful vertigo reminds people that in every ordinary moment, there is still sublime beauty and hope in it.

Philip describes his work as "a step towards abstraction in reality". He would first capture images with his camera, and then, through the glue and exploration of the interrelationship between light and color, paint them into plausible and indescribable oil paintings.

Keep staring to elevate a seemingly ordinary moment – in the actual creation, Philip is interested in the idea of "instant capture". The millisecond when everything is arranged in a perfect way, the picture will be like a symphony that can be interpreted without command, shapes and colors become dancing notes, and time and space inexplicably merge together. You don't have to identify the boundaries of things, this is a film out of focus, frozen in the most beautiful moment of the background music melody.

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I've been looking for something, some of the beauty of design that lies in randomness and randomness, and I'm using the interplay of color and light to depict that beauty.

—Philippe Barlow

Phillip Barlow

In the haze, what do you see, hear, and perceive? People will always use their existing knowledge to judge feelings, but they will experience beauty in an unknown time and space, so there are bound to be many kinds of beauty that are allowed not to be understood.

One of Philip's fans once wrote to him: "I am a nearsighted person, and through your paintings, I was able to show my father for the first time the world I saw. ”

Despite Philip's repeated denials, he doesn't mind many people describing his work as "the world in the eyes of myopia." In fact, he instead sees this well-intentioned and touching misunderstanding as a "gift from the Internet":

Nine years ago, doctors told me I had exotropia, which meant my vision wasn't parallel. So when I see something, my brain will work desperately, and drawing something out of focus will be very comfortable for me. I can't change the way people look at the work, but it's good, at least people see the paintings and start talking about art, and to some extent prove that 'it's really hard to tell people what the world looks like in your eyes'.

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Philip was born in 1968 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, and graduated in 1990 from Nelson Mandela City University with a degree in Graphic Arts. After graduating, he traveled extensively through Europe, Asia and North America, where he made a living painting large murals. After 11 years of exploration and practice, he finally formed his creative style in 2002.

About 20 years ago, I used my camera to photograph flowers. At that time, I always felt that God could create such a simple and beautiful flower, but we humans could not. I set the camera's aperture value to 1.4 or 2, thinking about complicated things while taking pictures, and inadvertently took a lot of pictures with the background out of focus. In the washed out photographs, I found the beauty of the out-of-focus area, an abstract beauty that is not easily recognized in the confusion. I think that's the beginning of everything, and although it's not God, I can create a kind of beauty.

The night of the city, the scenery of the sea, the crowd of people walking, it seems that only when there is tears, the familiarity will become no longer familiar, and only after the loss of focus will the strangeness become no longer strange.

Objects bathed in light also became carriers of light—for Philip, depicting such landscapes was only a tool of expression. Through this expression, he hopes that the boundaries between the material and spiritual realms can be dissolved, and that people's emotions can be soothed in a more open space, and then sail freely.

"Light is the ultimate theme, because it is the pinnacle of all reality" – in the subtle interaction of light and color, the beauty of out-of-focus is a warmth that can be touched, it comes from the streets of Tokyo, from the beaches of Cape Town, from Philippe's family studio in Reebek West, South Africa, and from a fleeting and unmistakable hope.

Eye Art Chronicles Part 819 is dedicated to the artistic gift of life.

Text Writing: Eye Edge Art Zhi

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