It's been moments like this one...
When I have been able to sit in my studio with my work and just be...totally present...and it is beautiful...they have made all the bs worth it, really ...I will miss them...
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"Nest", graphite on paper, 10 x 10 inches, July, 2011 "Ents", wax pencil on paper, 9 x 12inches, July, 2011 I'm going for a bit more figurative, illustrative, narrative style these days, but trying to keep it lyrical...
Project: Man is a monkey, trying to be a tree
What: paintings and drawings of things transforming into other things: Figure into memory, character into myth, image into statement, city into sky, human into tree When: now, the past, the future Who: the people and their myths in my life Where: CA Why: to create a "coherent" body of work that deals with what matters to me. What matters to me is the mystery of origination, the Ur question of what we are and where we came from, and, maybe, where we are going. Not sure if there is any other why in art, but that doesn't really matter to me. Pyhrra and Deucalion: Back into the garden they dreamt of consummation