NYT article

On Feb. 14 Roberta Smith wrote an interesting article in the NYT.  One paragraph resonated.  “What’s missing is art that seems made by one person out of intense personal necessity, often by hand.  A lot but not all of this kind of work is painting, which seems to be becoming the art medium that dare not speak its name where museums are concerned.”

I was wondering why art was now a manufacturing medium.   Hooray for paint!Spiral

river

There’s snow in places that don’t normally get snow.   The global climate isn’t all that’s changing.  I’ve always liked the patterns of the topography when I fly.River

Tree of Life

Sorry for the shiny photo.  The panel is 80″ tall, and hard to light, so I used the flash.   The tree is progressing, roots on Earth, reaching into space.Tree of Life

Several

I work on several paintings at once.  Some need to dry and some need time to percolate in my mind.  “Vision” has monofilament running thru it.  The socket is not part of the art!  River is part of the spirals.Vision2-9-10River

tree

The tree is thrusting into space.  If birds evolved from dinosaurs, what will humans evolve into?  Will the trees evolve so they can grow into space?Tree of Life

Earth

I lightened the Earth and tried to make the tree hold together while still descriing the spirals.  Tree of Life

Tree of Life

More spirals.  I need to emphasize the edge of the world at the bottom.  Would different colors make this more appealing?  Yeah, to who?  Am I once again relying more on color than structure?  Are my paintings skeletonless?Tree of Life

River

I’m stuck on spirals.  Besides DNA, they describe paths, like a rivers.River

Vision

You may not be able to tell, but there are strands of monofilament going thru the canvas.  I’m going to see if backlighting will still send light along them.  It did before I started painting.  Some of the “strings” in the paint are from poured enamel paints.Vision