Domestic Landscapes

Artist's Work Frisco
Series
Journals Survivor
Series
Vanitas
Still Life
 

Recollection Reflection
oil, 26x60

Hot Seat
oil, 36x50

Conversations
oil, 48x48

Dead Center
oil, 72x94

Her Vanity
oil, 66x78

       

Playing with Fire
charcoal ink wash and pastel, 60x78

 

 

These paintings are conversations with memory. Whisperings of secrecy, and situations portrayed only in the objects and effects left of relationships. In this series I wanted to capture the ethereal quality of memory, desiring these expressions be both mysterious and whimsically fond. A number of them express the ‘shock’ of realization of gender roles. Some, reflect loneliness of thought and being forgotten, and symbolically, a few hint at aspects of family dysfunction.

 

“Keith recalled his childhood with vivid imagery: ‘I remember feeling a comfortable numbness much of the time. Our house was big, and when I was small it seemed like it went on forever and ever and had a sort of darkness to it, even in the daytime. It’s funny, when I think of being in my own house; I don’t even see anyone else there. It’s empty.” “I don’t really remember feeling what you would call lonely … I just felt a sort of darkness or emptiness."

- Cloud & Townsend