2016 Blue Figure Drawings with Blue Figure Paintings part 2

some versions of Pastoral #2, 48 x 48", o/c, 2012

some versions of Pastoral #4, 48 x 48", o/c, 2012

Woman in the Reeds, 1 through 4, each 22 x 22”, Flashe on Arches, 2016

This was a group of paintings that survived.

The ideas in these paintings became the above drawings.

4th Western Lagoon, Blue Figure, each 22 x 22”, Flashe on Arches, 2016

Blue Figure , Western Lagoon, 68 x 68”, o/c, 2016-17

So this piece of writing if I take it a part, a bit-- may yield something else.

My work is metaphorical-- of a thought. 

The figure, the thought, the idea-- 

or Ideal, is emerging 

from the reeds or mind.

The bleak winter into a spring,

is the process of each new idea. 

We reach for the summer 

of each thought or aspiration-- 

then necessarily 

fall back into another round.

I like to see this metaphor 

as the Earth itself 

going through its daily round.

There is a beauty in this thought, 

and a search for truth, 

and finally justice.

I go through my mind 

searching 

in some way each day, 

the idea differs and shows 

some new aspect of itself. 

I see it as poetry.

I see poetry 

as a search 

for some kind of truth.

2016 Blue Figure Drawings with Blue Figure Paintings

Last week I got an email that a show of the Blue Figure Paintings was to be canceled because of the Corona virus.

My Gallery in Atlanta was sending back the first of the paintings pictured below. I hoped to make some point before all this passed.

I had been making 22 x 22" drawings for some time the size was becoming a motif. I felt the drawing did something to illuminate the process and evolution of my ideas supporting the paintings.

drawings, Western Lagoon, Blue Figure, #3, each 22 x 22", Flashe on Arches, 2016.

SB Lagoon, Night Studio #1, 84 x 84" o/c, 2012

There began a cycling or revolving of the drawings.

I wrote something on a Facebook post that seems to explain this to some extent. This to me is not didactic as there is a subtlety that  keeps shading and changing.

"I feel strange posting through all this. ( protests and looting in Manhattan and other cities)

My work is metaphorical of a kind of thought. The figure, the 

thought, the idea-- or Ideal, is emerging from the reeds or mind. 

The bleak winter into a spring, is the process of each new idea. We reach for the summer of each thought or aspiration-- then necessarily fall back into another round. 

I like to see this metaphor as the Earth itself going through its daily round. 

There is a beauty in this thought, and a search for truth, and finally justice. 

I go through my mind searching in some way each day, the idea differs and shows some new aspect of itself. I see it as poetry."

3rd Western Lagoon, Blue Figure, B/W each 22 x 22”, Flashe on Arches, 2016

Western Lagoon, Reeds #1 and #2, 60 x 60”, o/c, 2016-17

I make a lot of paintings and my studio is always packed. Stacking is always happening. The juxtapositions start to be what I am seeing.