Transitions 1983
Size guess: 24” h x 18”w
Acrylic on wooden panel
In the 1980’s, I was immersed in using my camera to capture human/nature ‘landscapes’ of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, where I was living at the time. I played a lot with reflections, especially those on water, and in this case, juxtaposing the mundane industrial horizon with the close-up of shore vegetation reflected within the setting sun. I would then further blur the edges of visual perception and interpretation, as I translated these into oil or acrylic paintings. Sometimes I flipped the image 180 degrees, so that the reflected objects looked like the ‘real’ ones. The confounding experience pivoted the viewer into a more ‘feeling’ space, rerouting the rational brain from identifying through words, and at some level dismissing the ‘known’. My interest in the patterns and abstract qualities behind conditioned knowing, continues to be an essential aspect of my art & life explorations.