1980 Variations on Utopia
During the late 1970’s I abandoned my usual format of paintings that hung on the
wall and began putting legs on the paintings. I designed them as miniature landscapes
inhabited by sperm-like symbols who symbolized “men.” The paintings began to take
on more social themes dealing with environmental and political ideas. In 1980 I decided
to merge many of the ideas I had been working with into one unified piece, both physically
and conceptually. The result was his first large scale project, Variations on Utopia.
The assemblage of “table paintings” has a central section that depicts a primitive
utopia. From that section grows man’s variations: warfare, genocide, industrialization,
urbanization, man-made utopia, and agriculture. The industrialization and genocide
sections suffered extensive damage in storage leaving the five undamaged sections
as the project’s present state.
- wood, canvas & mixed media
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