everlasting
oil on aluminum
24" x 24"
sold


this painting came out of an idea I had to quilt together several small format paintings with a single theme into a larger painting. I wanted the quilt to be like a block quilt, and the patchwork to seem fabric like, sewing the images together.
The theme of everlasting is spirals in nature, with the four pears being my observers. the panels are nautilus, a whirlpool galaxy, gardenia and a ram's horn. Scratched into the paint are spirals, circles and stripes for Daniella, squares, triangles and crosses. These marks are common to markmaking in human cultures worldwide from the earliest times. The spiral is one of the earliest marks ever found to be made by humans. It comforts me to use them. It makes me feel connected to both the past and the future.
I confined all secondary colors to the content blocks, and used my primary colors, both warm and cool to enclose the images. Daniella has asked that I darken the warm blue in the border, and I hope to get that done today.