Title: "Reach" - 2016 Size: 36" x 60" Medium: varied woods, metal, leather, oil paints • SOLD
Astronauts are a brave bunch… pioneers, the point of our human spear, piercing into new frontiers.
As a Baby boomer, I recall how astronauts were more a part of the cultural adrenalin than they are just now. I remember watching Neil Armstrong first step on the moon on a rabbit-eared B&W TV... all the world was transfixed. - There's more buzz about Mars lately, so perhaps that vibrance will return.
I had been doodling some cowboy 'things' in my sketchbook, (cowboy as metaphor for the past)… and then my pencil veered to the complement… an astronaut (metaphor for the future). I began to play and combine them in various ways to see how I might juxtapose these polar images.
Settled on a doodle, made me a sketch… 'n took it to wood.