daphneblithe

I got wondering about this after @hansbekhart made an amazing comment to me about that fic I wrote (sorry, I am mentioning that again, but this time in the service of something greater, i.e. hopefully finding out what YOUR answers are about your own process!).

Hans said:

"There's very much the feeling of a dream throughout the whole story, these sort of extra sensory, just off kilter details? Like the way you describe the light feels like a de Chirico painting to me."

I think that lovely analogy is spot on – the slightly surreal and sometimes oddly place-dislocatedness that’s in some de Chirico is v much in tune with what I am trying to capture!

And this got me thinking, what kinds of painting capture the writing experience for me – and I bet we all have different responses! What is yours?

For me, my writing process, and indeed my general aesthetic, feels like Caravaggio –vivid self-generated luminousness of the figures, against encroaching darkness (lol OK Angst-with-Happy-Ending is clearly where my heart lies):

(And on the subject of luminous foreground figures, the Pre-Raphaelites are obviously huge for this fic, given that I STEAL THE TITLE from one of them :rolls about ) Here’s a detail from Edward Burne-Jones’s painting, er, Love Among the Ruins.