Can a two dimensional object have three dimensional properties? The triptych TREE has three constructed inserts... one at the heart of the tree & one in each of the desert wings. The initial concept was to have an eraser in the centre & two objects in the eyes of the desert. First thought: a set of car keys in one & a miniature Easter Island head in the other. The solution arrived at is better. Shiva dancing presents the ineradicable process of creation & destruction that crystalizes the super nova of our universe. You have to love the green oxidized surface of the statuette. The only red in the entire painting is the red of the BIC lighters... plastic fantastic destruction... cheap, modern & disposable like the world we inhabit. The map behind the lighters are the streets of Saskatoon... one small city in the termite heap we call home. I have strung the bowstring tight to the point of snapping. Can you dig it? Sproing.
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