 Alger-Minoan Dithyrambos 2 Acrylic on wood. 30x36.  Alger-Minoan Springtime Acrylic on canvas. 54 x 67.  Alger-Minoan Dithyrambos Acrylic on wood. 36x36.  Alger-Minoan Autumn Acrylic on wood. 36x48. |
Artist's Statement: 2008
Each painting is a new dive into the cenote, down deep, past the last flickers of sunlight. What I bring back into light is always a surprise.
I have been delighting in looseness, luminosity, rhythm, color, and the untranslatable calligraphic line.
Seeing a recent painting, a friend remarked, “I see that you added some shadows and some modeling.”
“Hot damn!” I shouted, “I thought I added some violet and some yellow.”
Still, my paintings are informed by divinities found in the mythic moment, owing especially to Hermes, Dionysius, and Kybele.
I paint in acrylics, having confused the turpentine with the wine much too often with oils.
I live retired and ecstatic, with my wife, Julia, in Alger and in Dalmatia.