COMPLIMENTARY
BY JOHN A. MORROW
RELEASED 1994
EDITION SIZE 950
50 ARTIST'S PROOFS
FRAME SIZE 12x12
PRINTED ON ACID FREE PAPER
Life seems to be full of opposites, just about all philosophies
have their version of them, whether it be yen and yang or good and evil.
This watercolor painting portrays several symbols of these
opposing forces. The delicate light softness of the Day Lily contrasted by the dark
hardness of wrought iron. The graceful swaying curves of the flower formed by nature is
innately different from the man made straight and controlled quality of the fence.
Adding to this contradiction is an element of time. The fleeting short life of the
Day Lily as compared to the decades the fence can exist. And finally color itself is
a factor, for the purple hues of the background are the opposite or complementary color of
the yellow in the flowers.