John Storrow

    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. 

 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.