The summer and fall were productive times for me in the studio. A large selection of my work is going to be exhibited during the month of February at the Gallery of the Quogue LIbrary in Quogue on the south shore of Long Island. www.quoguelibrary.org
The two pieces pictured here have special meaning for me since I made them in late
October and early November just after hurricane Sandy. I hadn’t started out to
make pieces about the storm at all. Actually, I was blessed with some free time
in the studio by my good luck of not losing my electricity or suffering any
real discomfort from the storm that so damaged much of the city. I began
working on these two pieces and was amazed at how fast they developed. In fact, I had to rush to keep up with them as each in its turn seemed to clamor for
attention, telling me “Here, here.” It was like a train rushing down the tracks
and I had to run to jump on before it left. Most artists have periods when a
piece is going well or, unfortunately more commonly, when a piece is going slowly
and painfully. But the intensity of work on these two images was, for me,
extraordinary. I was working every day for at least six hours at a time. Near the
end, I realized that, of course, these two images certainly were about the
storm — the wildness and destruction of the storm.
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WILD OCTOBER DARK 11 in. x 9-1/2 in. monotype, pastel, colored pencil, and collage
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