New Art: Wheels Within Wheels
acrylic, red flocking and gold leaf on panel with three holes
holes are lined with red foam-backed velour
24 x 16 inches
It’s all about the circles lately. But why? I dunno. Maybe it means I’m travelling in circles, spinning my wheels, never really getting anywhere. Maybe it means I’m particularly centered and approaching wholeness and enlightenment. Maybe I just really really like the gesture required to draw a circle, the circle’s symmetry and simplicity, and the flexibility afforded by the shape.
At any rate, click read more to see more photos after the jump. Oh, and as usual, all pics will enlarge when clicked.
closeup of center hole
closeup of darker side just below bottom hole
closeup of lighter side
I’m happy to have finally finished this. One down, six to go!
-Steph Gerolimatos
June 20, 2009 at 1:06 pm
There’s usually a translation loss with gold in photographing it, but I think this set did well. I wonder if you’ve ever seen an active volcano, Steph. I just get the impression you’d be giddy a long time afterward. This sort of work grabs onto my imagination of what it would be like hiking around one. Just driving around Iceland I got to see some really, really “otherworldy” landscape; extreme earth. My hosts wanted to zoom us clear across the south coast road to get to a tourist spot, but all this moss was everywhere covering vast lava fields. I just wanted to stop and check it out instead. Well, anyway, this is what some of your paintings conjure up for me…extreme process, earth skin with the sudden pure construct hovering or penetrating, transcending.
June 29, 2009 at 9:36 am
nope, i’ve never seen an active volcano, but it’s true that landscape has actually had a major influence on my work. i realized its impact back in ’97 after i’d moved back to the Adirondacks (where i’d done most of my growing up) for a while. i’d been away for a couple of years and it wasn’t until i was back in the midst of a long frozen wintry hell that it hit me how the often bleak and severe imagery of that area had crept into my work without me even noticing.
June 20, 2009 at 1:28 pm
A nature photography blog that includes Iceland
June 29, 2009 at 9:38 am
thanks for the link, Andrew. some gorgeous photos there. must be incredible to actually be right in it!
June 29, 2009 at 10:38 am
Driving the south coast was the only place we’ve ever been stopped because Nissan was making a car commercial on the highway. The filming company was using the bridge over an alluvial floe in the middle of a vast volcanic ash field. They had a helicopter in the air. Otherwise is wasn’t very crowded. There weren’t even fences on either side of the highway.
I guess it’s being in the presence of to elemental opposites, fire and ice.
I wouldn’t mind living there for a while. Just have to learn Viking…er, the Icelandic language.