"Common Ground" - 2021 40" x 25" Wood, metal, gold leaf, oil paint SOLD
Common Ground started as another improvisational sketch that kept my interest, and so I eventually took it forward to wood.
I was intrigued by a compelling duality the composition offered. At first take the staging is adversarial, with the two figures
laboring in opposing directions; conversely, the unplowed space between them is narrowing, bringing them ultimately closer together… converging towards the common space.
Color decisions are often unknown and unfold for me, but the notion to go ‘gold’ to the quieter central area was an early decision, symbolic, to allude to those things of “value”… our pursuit of it, and ... our evolving perspective of just what it is.