Crossroads, 36" x 36"
Over the years, my sister Laura and her husband have collected a lot of my art. When they moved to Ithaca this year, I got to see it all. It's always instructive to see what I was painting earlier in life, such as the above piece from 1989.
"Crossroads" was painted when I lived in San Diego, and I believe the piece below was also:
Outland Paths, 60" x 60"
I see that I loved line then, and that love has carried over into my present work.
For a short period, I included bits of text into my paintings. This one was painted when I lived in Alexandria, Virginia:
I Love Ice Cream, 40" x 40"
Looking back, I'm not sure what was going on in my head, but some of the phrases included (as well as the title phrase) are "believe," "now," and "before we judge."
Looking over work from our past is a bit like revisiting our earlier selves. In it we see the signs that led to current directions in our art.
