Temporarily adding the unnecessary to the entropy wall. It is clearly a large painting, more than half the size of that sculpture. ‘The Unnecessarily Erotic Amoebas of Port Elgin’, watercolour, 21″ X 30″, framed its 28″ X 36″, $25,000.00 US One of my favourite frame jobs. This one is 28″ X 36″ overall. I made…
I have been thinking on similar themes, how to respond to events that do touch us but which are remote from us. As a democracy we cannot escape that we sent our soldiers to Iraq and Afganistan, and as it happens I pass by and cannot help but observe the human effects in my daily work (I am in the UKs leading military hospital but not directly involved). So I find no meaningful answer in my art. I think you are braver in yours.
Injustice has been a theme in many of my works throughout my time as a painter. I am fortunate to be in a safer more open society than many of the subjects of my work. And as such is the case I feel compelled to speak out, or paint, about what I see in the world. I have children and grandchildren and worry about the mess this planet has become. And thank you again for your kind words.