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Born of despair and bewilderment over current events, this work is the result of my choice to embrace the absurd and to focus on things that are either delightfully frivolous, or eternal and utterly indifferent to human affairs. Small, oil on canvas paintings of soft serve ice cream and cupcakes* floating in space, hovering over Provincetown Harbor or inserted into settings that pay homage to favorite artists, combine with painterly renderings of alternately placid or roiling seas to juxtapose the power and beauty of the geophysical world with some of the more ephemeral pleasures of life on earth. As the work has progressed, a common visual language has emerged as structural similarities between these polar opposites on the emotional/gravitational spectrum have come to light. Piled up frosting echos swirls of ocean spray, cupcakes turn comically geological evoking a stylized mountain top in one piece, a messy space rock in another. And so it goes...
