the long road home
“In your light I learn how to love …. you dance inside my chest, where no one see you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.” Rumi
The paintings in this series evoke the sensuality and desire that can exist at advancing years, the intensity of emotion and intimacy pulling two people together, and the deep yearning for connection buried in the human psyche.
My images open and expose the couple’s vulnerabiflity, their ideas about aging and sexuality, their constructs of who they were, and who they are now.
Hinting at the identity and narrative behind the figures - the landscape, the prominence of the road, the pair of graceful sandhill cranes who are silent but vivid witnesses - each work in this series is a visual narrative born from memories obtained from a full measure of lived experiences - loves, losses, achievements, disappointments. Utilizing very contrasting media - walnut drawing ink, oil paint or graphite on translucent drafting film, silkscreen prints on birch panel - I work at exposing the inner narrative of each human figure.
the long road home is at essence a love story. My own love story. Occurring later in life and walking through the isolation of the Covid years, a new relationship was born out of the old. Images of memory, places and times past sought renewal and forged the landscape in which we now exist.
I invite you to read a blog in the British Columbia Medical Journey by the esteemed physician, Dr. George Szasz, who saw a remarkable similarity between his work and mine!