pepino melon/heart.beat.
60"H x 48"W
oil on canvas. This painting is of a tiny perfect foreign melon that I discovered in the local market. It was painted during a period of imposed stillness. Of trying to discern who I now am.
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The Flesh of the Papaya
36"H x 24"W
"The Flesh of the Papaya" is an oil painting on prepared board. Large papayas like this one remind me of the years I spent in Mexico. They are usually bruised and beat-up looking on the outside. Their skins are thin and delicate- providing little protection for the massive ripe fruit within.
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Crepuscula
40"H x 26"W
Pastel on paper. Crepuscula comes matted and framed. The two most beautiful ballet squashes on a white table cloth in a white room in New Mexico, painted at a golden hour.
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Pattypan at Dusk
18"H x 24"W
Oil on prepared board. I visited the pottery studio of my friend Carol Clamer during a sale of her work. The work was strong and beautiful- but out of my price range. I left with this flawless white pattypan squash- a gift from Carol. It had been a gift to her from a local Dixon farmer. I worked on this piece at dusk- placing the white squash on a white table cloth. Due to the quality of light in the studio, neither of course looked white. This painting changes under bright lights. The colors are intense, almost garish- not pewterish, as the squash appeared to me, barely visible in the wanning light and as the painting itself appears under natural light, or with distance. The piece becomes three dimensional, more real, in waning light. I must have seen those colors- squinting in the dimly lit room. They must have been there, but were not easily distinguished. Or else they wouldn't blend as they do to create the effect that I saw when the light is the same as it was. This piece is dedicated to the memory of my dear friend Carol, who stayed on me about painting her squash.
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"Precious"
18"H x 24"W
Pastel on bark paper. I have been fascinated with bulbous ballet squashes for a number of years. This was such a beautiful one. This piece was created at dusk, as much of my recent work has been. The name came from popular warnings in academic art circles against being "precious". Since I see art as an endeavor to capture what is precious, or valuable, whether it is a fleeting view of nature, a clear idea, or an intuitive hunch, this stipulation is non-sensical to me- funny actually.
2004
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Revolution; View 1
48"H x 54"W
Oil on canvas. Revolution is not meant to be seen from only one angle, but to be turned periodically. The "revolution" its name refers to, however, is that of radical change, or states of being.
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