Peninsula

 

Imagine you’re sitting in your living room, in your house at the end of a peninsula, and there’s a nice cool ocean breeze entering through your window. On this particular peninsula, the wind would always do exactly that, because it always points into the wind. Things could get a bit rocky though if there’s a sudden updraft and the wind blows uphill..

Another miraculous alignment

 

This is painting that depicts a hanging mobile that is remotely carried by a distant cruise ship, heading out to sea. The yellow four wheeler cart happens to be in the right place at the right time so that each ruby red jewel lines up with the cups at each corner. It’s another one in my series of “Miraculous alignment” pieces. I suppose I’m quite interested in these ideas that have to do with capturing motion, as opposed to ordinary static objects. (“Miraculous alignment number (?)

Teardrop elevator

 

This painting is called “Teardrop elevator.” It depicts a  tall observatory with four ancient legs, standing on a low island in the middle of the sea. The only way to get up there, as you can see, is on an elevator shaped like a teardrop. It’s a rare, for me, vaguely figurative or animal like image. Something about how maybe it stopped walking millions of years ago, and turned to stone. 

Meeting of the minds number 2

 

This picture was “taken” as if it was a photo, at the exact moment when three boats reached across the sea, and they came together in almost perfect alignment, even though all three were bobbing about in the waves. Underneath the point where they met, there is a fourth arm which has reached across from the land, to support their meeting. 

Four mountains, four marbles

 

 

Once there were four large mountains peeking out from the sea. They were playing a game of marbles using four very large soup ladles, balanced on each mountain top. Inside each marble, on each soup ladle, there was a steel ball bearing. Suddenly, a very long fifth arm, which was balanced at its distant end by a tiny ball, and four magnets at the front end, swung into place, and was about to grab all four red marbles at the same time, when the picture was taken. 

Drone painting

 This painting depicts a miraculous almost union between the bottom half of a sculpture, which rides on three red wheels, and the upper half of the sculpture which is suspended from a drone with four propellers. At any moment, one half might zing away and there goes the almost Union. I’m interested in the idea of suggested or implied potential for movement. It’s way more interesting than something that just sits there, which I guess is ironic because that’s what paintings do, they are inanimate, literally motionless. 

Fake wooden clouds

 They needed some clouds. The houses on the wind swept hill by the sea were tired of looking up at a blank blue sky, so they erected a two hundred foot tall trellis to hold up some wooden clouds that they cut out of whatever wood they could find. At the moment this painting was “Taken like a photo” there was a lull in the wind which was long enough to allow the wooden clouds to stop swinging. It must have been a pretty long lull. As you can see, some actual clouds (depicted) are beginning to appear on the horizon. I guess one could imagine the houses represent people, because people can live in houses. Houses are way easier to draw and paint than people. They’re just boxes with pointy tops and windows.