A pair of fishermen stand in a misty morning space casting their lines again and again in a clumsy ballet of curves and tangling trajectories.
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The morwong is a fish that inhabits the tropical and temperate seas of Australia. There's a long and elaborate story as to why I chose that name for this picture, but I'll leave it up to your imagination.
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A dazzle of light filters down from the surface into an complex and half-glimpsed world.
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An intricate palimpsest, like a map, a diagram of human experience, built layer upon layer with the passage of time.
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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.
"Ctesiphon" - 2014, acrylic and charcoal on fiberboard panel, 40 x 50 cm. The great artifacts of human civilization revealed as fleeting and impermanent against the sweep of time.
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"Green Incursion", 2014, acrylic on MDF, 30 x 30 cm. A tangle of grays and blueswrithes around a pathway of green.
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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.





