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Populated Landscapes in Casein Media The Violinist Once upon a time I was a scenic artist, creating backdrops for stage productions. We painted scenery with Casein, intense velvety pigments in sour-milk-based binder. Now I create fine-art paintings in this traditionally theatrical media, imbued with lush and slightly surreal softness. Landscapes were a natural starting point for subject matter, but increasingly figures are creeping into my work. Not as character studies, but merely as beings to populate the terrain, feeling the atmosphere, absorbing the environments I’ve created. Anchorage on Esplanade, Charles River Market East
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The Mask Chaser of Dreams PastFor months, a Chinese dragon haunted me in my sleep-- one of crimson and gold and emerald green, with a screaming face confined to a wooden mask. It watched me in my dreams, hiding like a stalking beast. It peered from the depths of the thickest brush, in the dark heart of the heaving forest, echoing silence as it held its roars in its throat. My task was to catch it, to tame it, somehow I knew I was to tear it from its kingdom and make it my serf. I would reign from my throne overlooking the lake and it would fetch me water and wine in gold goblets; scrub and wash my flowing robes in bubbling basins; and sacrifice itself for my every whim, my every fancy. But first I had to wear it, press it over my face,
and absorb its mighty powers until my skin glowed. Then I, too, would possess the spirit of the dragon. |