Building on another tableau from Bouguereau, in a process of over a year I let this pair of panels narrate themselves as dreams do. I wanted to expand beyond the edge of the canvas and somehow connect to the infinite, so I made them match at the edges. These will be re-positioned once a week to demonstrate how each orientation is a different experience. The title is taken from what may be an apocryphal story often attributed to Bertrand Russell and is an entre’ to the logic of the dream world in which, because the universe is infinite and anything is possible, there is no foundational ‘truth’, all is infinite regression.
The story in short is that after giving a lecture, Russell was told by a woman that in her cosmology the Earth was supported on the back of a giant turtle and when he asked 'what does the turtle stand on?' was told, 'Why, it's turtles all the way down!' In this and other edge-matched pieces you’re invited to enter into a prolonged saunter through the images and see what meanings arise for you. Look for the reference to MC Escher that manifests in one particular orientation.
- Collections: Turtles All The Way Down