SHIPS HAPPEN: contemporary realist paintings

Serving a decorative function from atop a credenza I (and Anthony, too) take a closer look at figurines in a larger scale and context, inviting the viewer into the moment to find relevance in contemporary times. 

My grandmother Iluminada’s homes in NYC and Spain were filled with Dresden style figurines.

At age 2 she began telling me,

 “You don’t touch MY things, I don’t touch YOURS.”

I thought that was the way of all lands and would never after be comfortable with anyone touching my stuff. Likewise and effectively, my sense of boundaries placed ‘the stuff of others far from my interest.

As if preserved in frilly forms, persons and animals enjoy peace in bucolic settings. Such gentle romanticized interactions might leave us longing for that kind of joyous, but fragile love. 

Relationships are delicate like that.

7 new paintings started

The pair of paintings, “FOR A SONG” represent the subtle power of music as a spellbinding force. Cupid connects the listening girl to the accordion player. 

Music is the catalyst of desire preparing to shoot an arrow to impale the unsuspecting pair with love.

and more to come—