Blast from the past...an old painting of mine.

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I was just sitting around looking at some photos of some of my old artwork and came across this one. It was done back in May 2005, when I could still hold a paintbrush. It's oil on canvas (25" x 20) and (as far as I know) is residing in a home in eastern Colorado. I titled it, The Meaning of Life, and the "secret" of the painting is the lettering highlighted in yellow inside the equation.

charlie

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It's interesting

Angharad's picture

Is it based on any system of belief or just a painting?

Angharad

No, I just had the idea of...

charlie98210's picture

No, I just had the idea of hiding the phrase, "it is a privilege to live this day and tomorrow," in what looked like a burnt fragment of an arcane mathematical document. The numbers are just a random string of numbers, letters and symbols that I made up as I sketched out the layout of the painting. (Down in the lower left, I added the phrase, Potius sero quam nunquam which is Latin for, roughly, Better Late than Never; but did not highlight those letters in yellow because I wanted the first phrase to jump out).

charlie