My fantastic photography skills do this piece no justice, but this is the newest piece that will be going up at the show of new work, starting this Friday the 11th. It has a bit of work left to be done, but I think that the blue and grey really work well together to express a frigid feeling. The brown which takes up the background is actually the same texture you would see in the previous "eye" painting, but this time, it covers over half the canvas which is 36x60". The glacier motif, while conjuring images and thoughts of environmental catastrophe, global warming, and glacial melting, was mostly chosen for the aspect of disappearance, movement and the eventual end. The large, strong brushstrokes seems as if they are falling away from one another, dissolving into the organic texture behind much like a glacier scrapes and grinds itself into the dirt and land surrounding it. While the glacier is one of the most immense moving objects on the planet, the day will come when it retreats back to the sea, and with this piece, we see it at its first stages of disintegration. The first sign of weakness.
Fit to be finished tonight and hung on thursday at the new show at the Art Bar
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