Effervescent Landscape: A Solo Painting Exhibition by Judi Lightfield

You’ve heard it before, maybe you’ve felt it. Everybody lives in their own bubble. It’s a bubble in that it is clear, edgeless, smooth. If it was a cube, you’d get pushed into a corner and you’d feel it. No, it’s a bubble, soft and slippery. At times you’re barely aware of it. You float in your own minestrone soup.

Everybody lives in their own bubble. What does that look like? I’ve worked years visualizing the essence. At first the bubbles occurred with a cosmic background. It was the sensation of vast outer space and the improbability of finding a bubble there. The images were surreal. After all how does a bubble exist in a vacuum.

Now the negative space is an abstract landscape. There is a horizon line. Sky above, earth below in a variety of settings, mountains, valleys, trees, water. Some are calm, some are edgy. The title of the paintings are the primary colors used for the landscape.

The human figure disappeared for a while and now returns. The first figures were stiff and brittle. They got looser as I developed the image. Now in some paintings they float. In some the figures are about to break out of the bubble. Sometimes the bubbles collide. The number in parentheses after the title refers to the number of figures in the painting.

Here’s the question- are you safe in your own bubble? Are you free without it? Any cocoon can become a coffin if you stay in it too long.

There is no one right answer.