clay, acrylic on primed canvas, 18"x24"
I recently began a series of paintings that function as an Ode to a person who I used to know and saw one day while sitting in a coffee shop. He had terribly declined in health and it is not clear now if it was even the person whom I thought it was. The series is still early in its development however; I am treating each canvas as an exploration into the idea of memorializing an image where this image also stands for the history of an image. What I find is required now is an exploration through several non–determined and intuitively lead explorations into materials that will trace time, ideas and attempt to show fleetingly, the thought process behind attempting representation and at the same time the need tp create a painting that seems to gasp the air around it from time to time. Going back to the stain seems to suit this need for immediacy and to provide the mystery of space and capture the past, memory, imagination and anything but the present. However, this could be a present or future in another dimension/universe.
Pedro, is my actor, he is a representation of a figure in a figurative painting. He is manipulatable, I use him and direct him like a puppet. We discuss painting and art in general, film, theatre, sculpture and he could be inserted here and there. He is dissolving into a new character.
