has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
Acrylic and cut paper over a background of acrylic, plaster, and torn book pages.
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"Anxiety Parade", 2014, acrylic on fiberboard, 30 x 30 cm. The shimmering array of thoughts and images that the mind throws out in the small hours of the night.
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The hooting calliope, roaring crowds, and flashing spotlights that play in our heads at three o'clock in the morning on those nights that sleep escapes us.
"Flowers" made of jimsonweed (Datura) seedpods with stems of copper wire; broken glass, doll parts, cardboard, string; wasps made of papier mache, plaster and wire.
A tumble of clouds reflects the afternoon sun over the low hills south and east of the Arkansas Ozarks.
Distance -- whether geographical, emotional, or in time -- depicted through the symbol of the old-fashioned telephone lines that used to parallel the highways when I was a child.
Graffiti, pictures at an exhibition, buildings, window & doors, a street map, people & places -- it's all intended to evoke a neighborhood in Birmingham, Alabama, where I lived in the 1980s.
From "Siddharta", by Hermann Hesse: "Bright pearls he saw rising from the deep, quiet bubbles of air floating on the reflecting surface, the blue of the sky being depicted in it. With a thousand eyes, the river looked at him, with green ones, with white ones, with crystal ones, with sky-blue ones. How did he love this water, how did it delight him, how grateful was he to it! "
