Things Left Behind

Things Left Behind is part of my continuing investigation into the essence and nature of constructed images as individual entities that are neither reliant, nor dependent upon a one to one reproduction of the subject matter referred to in the work of art. The images in the piece are not descriptions of the thing that has happened, a copy, but rather a depiction of a kind of thing that might happen, never intending that the interpretation should be seen as something other than a painting.

Although precisely articulated the work is rendered with no intent at naturalistic description. Flattened plains and subjective color are used with objective values to underscore the distinction between the models, and the interpreted images referring to those models, stressing the fact that they are painted forms, pigment on canvas. Adding to the distinction between the referenced subject as models and the interpreted images within the work, I employ an original design technique fusing the distortion of forced Renaissance perspective into regions of broken picture planes. The interpreted images are placed on these enigmatic planes, resulting in a somewhat unsettling, yet compelling depiction of potential realities.