INTERIOR PAINTING. OIL ON CANVAS, 16″ X 12″
This painting grew out of an older painting which I was never really satisfied with, an image of a ‘red man’ holding a broom and standing somewhat incoherently in a forest. I had actually spent alot of tyme on it, but it never really convinced me, and gazing one evening into that image, I thought I screed this fleshy nude there beneath him, and decided to call her out at the risk of losing the Red Man. (If you look really closely, you can see a palimpsest of his head just above her head).
I did lose him, but I gained her. I much like this image, which is to convey the idea that we are all of us lost in some way, no getting around it. Leaving her naked seems to increase her lostness, not that I planned it that way, since I never plan these things. I gave this painting to my Mom Peg even tho she never really trusted my images. After she died, the painting passed on to Tony Grimaldi who has it on his bathroom wall in Kansas City, Missouri.
