Cityscapes
My work explores a way of witnessing the city and reflects my experience of twelve years living in Seattle. Using acrylic paint on textured panel surfaces and a combination of mark-making and brushstrokes, I capture and execute a city’s impressions and stories.
Cityscape is a never-ending subject unceasing in its ability to evolve and delight us. It stands as a symbol of life in continuous flux. By day it is a dressing-room of mirrors reflecting, refracting, bouncing as do water diamonds on the ocean. By night, it transforms itself to become a man-made stained glass starry universe. But underneath this teeming turbulence abides a peace steady and unbroken. Architecture's ghostly lines reveal structured shapes, hints of towering forms and precise angles assuring an impeccable solidity within the unbridled energies of city life.
Through my work, I share a feeling and vision, a way of seeing beneath the immense and frenetic surface of city life to the unity underlying all of it, to the human connection we have within it, and with one another. The finished piece results in an Everyman's composite of a metropolitan landscape, presenting the city as a place of gathering and inclusiveness that is not only a monumental accomplishment of human endeavor but also an intimate place we call our home.