Panoptica

About the Work

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These ten oil paintings, each four feet high by three feet wide, form a circle connecting the changing light of day to the seasons and weather of a year. There is no beginning or end. The foreground of each painting is dominated by a still life, each built on a different idea. These ideas interact and converse with each other, literally, conceptually, and metaphorically. The forms create a visual narrative that contrasts human and natural cycles. Each painting is stand- alone complete while at the same time integral to the whole.

The sun rises in spring as tiny shoots of grass grow from the rotted compost of the previous year. The series progresses to a summer afternoon with grasses growing taller, partially obscuring naked and carefree lovers playing with a toy sailboat. In autumn, with evening falling, the tall grass is suddenly cut, leaving an army helmet alone in the blood- soaked soil. Night falls as the winter wind blows feathers, seeds, and snowflakes from one painting to another, against a backdrop of dark ocean.

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