In this painting, I’m again playing with perpendicular shapes, however in this piece, the spaces are even larger than in ‘Grow House Groove-On’. The imagery is based on a battery of industrial sized power boxes located in a large factory warehouse setting. ‘Double Door Power Play’ is perhaps the closest I’ve come to achieving an equal balance of abstract and representational imagery in a single painting.
The wire cables are activated linear elements, quivering with electricity, leading the way for each box to be connected with the others. The power box doors’ yellow glow is suggestive of the massive energy behind them. The shadows also play a role, becoming both shape characters as well as dark patches of obscured light. The unbroken spaces startled me at first, but I’m beginning to become more comfortable and calmed by them – an important step on my path toward more open spaces.
The mood of this painting is warm, and somehow reassuring. There’s tremendous power, but it’s all connected and is only going to be used for the force of good. The orange in the painting is all about power and warmth, but the orange shape characters are safely restrained in their rectangular power cells
- Subject Matter: Still Life
- Created: 2014
- Inventory Number: 2014-10
- Collections: All Available Paintings, Mechano