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.