this is about venturing along and not knowing the destinationCurrently this is on the table in my studio and it is absolute evidence that I do not know the answer to the question.  The question is, “Why do early drawings by children often have these ladder-like shapes? I am “at rest” now after a couple of hours working out this non answer. The good news is, I am engaged with this new work! The point of engagement is to be working and playing with paper and ink, charcoal and paint, light and darkness, stories and abstraction, philosophy and wonder. Actively engaging wonder is a sacred ritual and my right and most essential role as an artist, as a human being.

Now,  I am seeing my decision to impose the gradual changes of color in the most ordered part of the above work as my way to represent the notion of production and development, I depicted this notion as a railway heading into a black tunnel. The surroundings are strewn and disheveled and devoid of order, they are the detritus of what is left behind after the earth is manipulated and shifted for prosperity. The flattened picture plane is a field of wreckage that serves as a chaotic viewing of the results of the disturbance. So this swathe of seeming order and precision barrels through this field and disappears. I think this piece is more of an existential statement than a question at this point. The work currently possesses the tension that my Father always accused me of incorporating in my art. So be it.

Learning To Fly

This is a quick iphone pic of the work as I left it yesterday afternoon. Taken as I stood tottering on a chair and held it as high as possible above the piece. I thought I had cropped it in the download- but you’ll get the gist of it’s development.

The work is developing an aerial viewpoint and incorporating the theme of flight as I work in the complexities of it’s design. I am having a great time!

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