Works in Progress

These are some snaps of works in progress. I've largely given up on the old painting of the guitarists. Here's the new one, and one based on a photo of a Gypsy dancer from the Georgia Ren Fest.

You may notice the purplish archway element that exists-- but functions differently-- in the two paintings. My hope is that by having the archways in the bottom image frame a musician who is clearly a painted fragment of a mural, audiences will look at the top image and wonder if the dancer, too, is a painting that the foreground figure is looking at. The top image is starting to deal with voyeurism-- when we look at it, we're watching someone watching someone. But really we're looking at a painting. And maybe he is, too.

And yes, the second painting is based on the photograph I specifically claimed I wasn't going to use.