20 Years, to and fro, NM /NY: 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."