A341 Wedding (for Heidi & Nathan)
24x18" oil on canvas
private collection
Anomaly Series
Monday, January 19, 2004
Sunday, January 18, 2004
A340 Memory (flux)
A340 Memory (flux)
36x24" oil on canvas
$800.00
This painting is about how flow (inspiration) works, in and out. A cacophony of information and ideas enters the woman’s head, and a single rivulet of pure vision enters her eye, and pours out. The conversion from chaos to clear flow is the artist’s refining process, thinking and working.
The persistence of all those garbage memories we tend to store away, threatens to overwhelm us. You can see that this lady has managed to refine them into a crystal stream pouring steadily from her eyes.
As I worked my way around the figure, I was thinking about the bottom right corner, which is a geometric pattern, as opposed to the organic shapes of the rest of the painting. I added a very anomalous set of green pyramid forms in the lower right, very strange and somehow wonderful.
Anomaly Series
Thursday, January 15, 2004
A337 Artist & Anomaly IV
A337 Artist & Anomaly IV
10x8" acrylic on glass
private collection
A pointillist study of an artist friend, France. I wanted to capture the joy and concentration of the artist at work.
Anomaly Series
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
A335 History II
A335 History II
16x20" mixed medium on panel
private collection
Another version of the clutter we carry around with us. Our own personal history, all the things we have said and done, swirls around us, sometimes coming into focus, but mostly remaining peripheral until something reminds us. Our history, like Memory, forms a life pattern for each of us, the positive and negative elements changing according to our experience and mood. Kaleidoscope and cacophony, an adornment and a burden; some people cling to their history, while others try to shed it, and don another.
Anomaly Series
Monday, January 12, 2004
Sunday, January 11, 2004
Saturday, January 10, 2004
A328 Reformation VII (frantic orange chair)
A328 Reformation VII (frantic orange chair)
36 x 24" acrylic on acetate
Friday, January 9, 2004
A326 Reformation V
A326 Reformation V
10x8" oil on glass
Private collection
A pointillist 'reformed' segment of A298, Artist & Anomaly.
Anomaly Series
Tuesday, January 6, 2004
A323 Reformation II
A323 Reformation II
11x14" oil on canvas
private collection
This is an 'alla prima' study of some free-form shapes I made with oil and a large brush. The pointillist details suggest the developmental, biologic forms I am interested in, and are also reminiscent of the Paleozoic fossils in the previous series.
Anomaly Series
Sunday, January 4, 2004
Saturday, January 3, 2004
A320 Anomalous Piercings
A320 Anomalous Piercings
20x24" oil on canvas
$550.00
My idea was to show the piercing quality of pain and light, as a riving, but also as inspiration, the bolt that awakens you from inertia and complaisance. As well, lately I have been using the idea of the split person, but only to show how much can be going on at one time, in one mind, and the duality of our nature.
Anomaly Series
Thursday, January 1, 2004
A318 Sum VII
A318 Sum VII
10x8" acrylic on glass
private collection
The figure juggles several patterns she has formed, while immersed and surrounded by sequences of other patterns. The loose, perception pattern (symbolized by eyes and neurons) of her clothing, the pattern she choses to wear, contrasts with the symmetry of the background patterns. The figure doesn't 'fit in', and certainly the patterned masses she juggles do not blend in. She may be trying to make them fit somehow, or she may be keeping them separate.
Often our ideas, even our ideals, do not fit into the regular pattern of our lives, but we keep them delicately balanced, out there in front of our eyes, to remind us of what we strive to be. If we cling to one idea too long, the others must fall by the way. With concentration, however, we can keep various ideas going, sometimes for a lifetime.
Anomaly Series
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