The Gatherings (Part 1) 2022

"those strange words left no traces, and all is silent..."

Out of the blue, and often, rather suddenly, I stop what is going on in the studio and make figurative works on paper. I’ve done this on and off for years. It can be a sharp 180 degree shift in content and visual experience. Two polar opposites. It’s an about-face, like a pendulum swing.

In this case, it began with acquiring a stack of paper by chance, and the excitement of working with fallen feathers and pots of homemade walnut ink. The stepping stones for “The Gatherings” were laid long ago. The accumulation of figures, layered densities of entities and sounds of souls, have appeared along the way, but now, I would be shifting gears. 

 

I wanted to be at the middle of the pendulum swing, at the point where a clarification of many things, even polar opposites, might come together. 

 

Within this series of works on paper, there are connections between you, me, families, generations and the spirits of those around us. 

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works on paper, 2022

11" x 15" (28 cm x 38 cm) on larger paper

inks, walnut ink, watercolor inks, some with collage

"amongst them was a village boy who dreamed of marrying a princess..."	"different than we were today..."
"what if you were to go there again?..."	"it was the meeting place,of old and young alike..."
"The Night before the Moon was full..."	"return when there is a reason to return..."

"they will recognize each other, in the waking dream..."

"The Attendants of the King of Time"	"The Attendants of the King of Time, detail"
"exactly as it must have been..."	"if they were gone, were they gone?..."
"everything we have witnessed..."	"as if it ever happened at all..."

"the family of the Fisherman..."

"between two realms..."

"they wondered who we could be..."