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.
These "CLOUDS" are also a part of the "STEREO HEAD SIZE" painting series ... two (more or less) symmetrical paintings, another diptych.
Someone asked me to draw a model of CLOUDS that could be reproduced in the 5 story stairwell of a passenger ship.
I ended up with different (but similar) versions of what you see here, done in acrylics, pastel, and pen and ink.
My "CLOUDS" ended up somewhere between being clouds, and waves, and/or spiral galaxies (in other versions) ... to me they were stylistically vibrating between Art Deco, Japanese woodcuts, and comics.
Though no interest was given to these CLOUD ideas, ... my design for the AIDA passenger ship, a few years before, had won second prize (and, like in the Clint Eastwood film ... "A Fistful of Dollars" for myself).
My design for the AIDA was to paint the entire ship METALLIC SILVER (like a GT or Formula One Mercedes Benz, SILVER ARROW), with tinted GREEN WINDOWS ... I still think it's a way better idea than that goofy face that ended up on the ship.
Well ... all I can say is; "Hey ... YOU ... GET OFF OF MY CLOUD !"
The second part of the work shows Las Vegas beside the artificial world. The peoble living here, have no chance to participate on the prosperity of this fast growing city.
