Out of town and cripple

I have not painted since Friday. We are in Michigan and I am still crippled up with some kind of strain in my painting shoulder, maybe a pinched nerve. I am healing up, but this has been irritating me for several weeks. Trying to rest my shoulder and heal it up.

Gallery Revisions

These are the latest revisions of the paintintgs. These were taken professionally by Amy Parish . Also, these are going out to galleries in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. I will keep you posted on how that all goes.

Theology and Geometry: A Dartboard Confessional

Above left, "Juxtapose" (remix).

Above right, "Holy, Holy, Holy: Kinda Blue."

"Theology and Geometry: A Dartboard Confessional"

Remix

In the last post the lower image, "Juxtapose", has since been remixed. Last night I was working on another painting and "juxtapose" kept bothering me out of the corner of my eye, it still needed some attention. I started working on tracing over some lines that had been covered up with the grayish-blue. One change led to another and then to others. I will post the results later today.

Illuminations in oil

Promised and delivered. The painting on the left is titled "Belong," the dimensions are 4' x 4' oil and wax on board. The thinking behind that title has a connection to the agency of decorative style in attaching people to objects. In other words, in the anthropology of art and embellishment, the way objects or people were/are stylistically embellished communicates information about the group that the object or person "belongs" to. That is an overly simplistic description, but I wrote a paper titled "Portable Cosmography: The Agency of Style in the Ancient Southwest." that I would be glad to email to anyone who desires a more scholarly explanation.

The second painting is titled "Juxtapose," it is 20' x 24' oil and wax on canvas. With both of these paintings, the title is embedded into the painting.