So many of these figures are sitting &
seeing, their minds are working in parallel with their sight. They're
doing much the same thing I'm doing as I draw or paint them. They
vary in the way all self-portraits vary. A respectful distance turns
out to be very close indeed.
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| "Figure With Datura"- mixed media on paper, 12" X 9" |
We often see by means of a grid. Our
vision is caught, not by the wires in the net, but by the openings.
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| "Dark Tree"- acrylic on paper, 10 1/2" X 9 1/2" |
Gestural art make it clear that there's
an emotional proportion as well as an anatomical one. There is also
an emotional foreshortening.
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| "Gardener"- mixed media on paper, 8 1/2" X 5 1/2" |
My favorite narrative paintings are mostly landscapes.
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| "2 Trees"- acrylic on paper, 13" X 9" |
Drawing doesn't register line or mark,
it shows two forms of light, the fragmentary & the interior--&
also the shadows that serve them.
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| "Messaging"- mixed media on paper, 12" X 9" |
Every form of art seems to me to be a form of
listening for music.
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| "Garden Turn"-acrylic paper, 13" X 9" |
Sometimes in a face, myths of continuity & discontinuity meet.
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| Foot Rest"-acrylic on paper, 12" X 9" |
The only thing that effectively changes the scale
of an image is intimacy.
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| "Striped Skirt" -mixed media on paper, 8 1/2" X 5 1/2" |
Certain days are the ones we remember. We're made of them, because we've made something out of them. Paintings are certain days.
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| "Water Garden 3" - oil on canvas, 60" X 48" |
