Painting Hope
These are recent thoughts, I am still pondering.
Painting Hope
These are recent thoughts, I am still pondering.
Combined image of 2 bridges crossing the Tiber River, Rome, Italy
What a culture builds is a reflection of that society. The changes in design of places of worship, residence, transportation, and work reflect the changes of economy and values. Different interior spaces and exterior spaces provoke various emotional responses.
Recently, someone asked to interview me for a project of theirs, and I considered how some artist appear to others as aloof or distance. There’s often a lot going on in our minds (intellectually and emotional). I’d take a moment here in my blog to share where I am coming from when I make my work. Below are some of the questions he asked.
I am posting three new eggshell paintings in series, Morning Promise. Although the majority of the painting was done last fall I have recently added the final layers to three new eggshell paintings. These paintings are similar to the eggshell painting that was posted in November. They create a mini series where I investigated the beauty of contrived patterns of broken shells.
Sometimes one can find particular compound subjects which inter-relate not only intimately, but also freely and purposefully. One of these cases appears to be the dynamic and interlocking skeletal joints that we find at the core of our physical bodies. This example can perhaps be expanded through reference, in the thirty-seventh chapter of Ezekiel, to the story of ‘dry bones’ coming to life. Furthermore, one can exceed to the resurrection life that comes from death. Care to visual representation, along with ideas that connect to the work, may awaken this poetry while encouragi...
Humans are bound by time. We are not able to truly revisit and experience the past. Nor can an individual view the past and present simultaneously. If one could see the remnants of the past fade as the present took place, how would this be composed? In response, I have created this imaginary experience with bone joints that are juxtaposed in order to capture action and unification.