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About Places/Possessions / Available
In my previous still life series “Dream Tables”, the objects depicted are ordinary, but the compositions are ambiguous: what is the relationship of these disparate objects, and whose table is this? My current series “Places/Possessions” grows out of both the content and ambiguity of the “Dream Table” imagery. The landscapes have left their place on the table as just one element among many, and are now separate panels with an equal relationship to the still life. This shift creates compositions that explore new questions: Why do landscapes evoke feelings? Why does the view of a field in Provence, suburban street in Virginia, farmhouse in New England, quai in Paris, or market in Delhi each provoke such a different emotion? How much historical and content association do we bring to an image of a place, and how much of our emotion is purely visual, a visceral reaction to a landscape’s color, line and shape? How do the memories we each bring separately to the objects shown in the still life influence the way we view the adjacent image of landscape? I would like these paintings to raise questions, but as in all art, a sense of mood and mystery may be all that the paintings can provide as an answer. The viewer will have to supply meaning based on what they bring to these images of places and possessions. Back |
