40″ x 30″. Latex and spray paint. Created June 5, 2015.
I was trying to capture another bit of the spirit of a horror novel, which has hell as a major theme, when I created this. I painted it on the same day as I did “De Profundis” and using the same materials. Originally, I wanted to use only a touch of white, but when I added more than I intended, I used just a touch more to give the work some balance and a bit of action.
36″ x 48″. Latex and spray paint. Created June 5, 20215.
“De Profundis” is Latin for “out of the depths”. It is the opening of the Latin translation of Psalm 130: “Out of the depths I cry unto you…” I am writing a horror novel with hell as major theme. I wanted a painting that somehow caught a bit of the spirit of the novel. I started out by toying with some leftover spray paint and house paint and this is the end result.
36″ x 24″. Acrylic and Latex. When I created this, I was experimenting with using a few partially few cans of spray paint of random color. I sprayed on the colors at random, creating a nebulous background onto I streamed latex of similar, but not exact, color in order to create thin lines with a hard edge to contrast with the background. I named it after studying it and deciding these would be what might be considered “happy” colors associated with clowns, children’s parties, circuses, etc. The “Revisited” came from a story by F. Scott Fitzgerald “Babylon Revisited” in which a man returns to the neighborhood where he used to party hard to collect his daughter, the product of his wilder days. I thought of symbolizing someone returning in a sad story, this painting could be emblematic of someone returning to happier days with a happy ending.
24″ x 36″. I was experimenting with creating a peaceful feeling using horizontal lines and using a brush instead of my usual splattering. I named it after my first impression, which was that it reminded me of the sun setting over the reservation to the west of Farmington.
Created around May 22. 36″ x 24″. I was eager to try something new using hard lines and had this brown canvas lying around, one of the last of several I recently bought. “FLORES GRATIA FLORIBUS” is Latin for “Flowers for the sake of Flowers”. I got the idea from the Metro Goldwyn Mayer motto “Ars gratia Artis”, which is Latin for “art for art’s sake” and was a catchphrase/slogan for the Impressionists.
