These are small paintings in a series, inspired by a Wallace Stevens poem, “Anecdote of the Jar.” The poet placed a jar in the Tennessee landscape and of course everything became focused there. These paintings are an offshoot of a larger painting I tried years ago. What took dominion was not a jar but a condom–an item found too often littering beaches and in the woods. (I made Ed go out and buy a condom so I’d have something to work from and that’s what you see in the middle painting.) These are more abstract than most of my work and come from cannibalizing the earlier painting–using a view finder on small portions of it and painting those. The show I’m having next summer asks for “family appropriate” art so I hope the circle and square are not too obviously a risque subject. I’ve thought these would look good glued to a nicely-finished board, all five together.
It Took Dominion 1 oil on claybord 5 x 7 $100 unframed
It Took Dominion oil on claybord $100 unframed
It Took Dominion 3 0il on claybord 5 x 7 $100 unframed
It Took Dominion 4 oil on claybord 5 x 7 $100 unframed
It Took Dominion 5 oil on claybord $100 unframed
