MONSTER SERIES PAINTINGS
MY PAINTINGS, I am surprised that this is what is coming out of me when I bring paint to canvas. I have been doing classical charcoal figure drawing for about 25 years and consider it the basic workout for me to keep my formal skills and ability to see tuned up. Of course I have been making pots for forty years as my full time profession and passion. The paintings are a cross between the volumes I have been considering in my vessel making and the classical drawings in terms of the forms and lines. The narrative is not as easy to explain. I will do my best...
Each one is a portrait of being in the presence of a narcissist and my quiet inner outrage and heartbreak in their presence. In my family, my marriage, my community, and my government, I am astounded at the absence of basic decency as well as how it took me most of my life to understand narcissism and how it can never show basic decency or respect towards others. I have always valued seeing the best in people, but now I value seeing people as they actually are without idealizing at all. I have found that these paintings were the best way for me to express all the things that would never be received by the zero sum thinkers among us. Yet, there is a lot of humor in them as well, as at my core, I do find our human inhumanity simultaneously tragic and absurd.
Each one is a portrait of being in the presence of a narcissist and my quiet inner outrage and heartbreak in their presence. In my family, my marriage, my community, and my government, I am astounded at the absence of basic decency as well as how it took me most of my life to understand narcissism and how it can never show basic decency or respect towards others. I have always valued seeing the best in people, but now I value seeing people as they actually are without idealizing at all. I have found that these paintings were the best way for me to express all the things that would never be received by the zero sum thinkers among us. Yet, there is a lot of humor in them as well, as at my core, I do find our human inhumanity simultaneously tragic and absurd.
Prints are available, 8 x 11", $125
