ARTIST'S COMMENTARY (continued)
Again, similar allusions to weaving are flirted with in this piece, this time all three layers of mountains are incorporated into the, hinted-at, graphic pattern.
The prussian blue used in these imagined compositions, done in Lima, while I was waiting to get a start into actually traveling in the Andes, was inspired by glazes used in both Asia and Europe in the decoration of classic ceramic vessels. I like the vases and tea pots from China to Holland, (some fragments of which I've dug up and collected from 2 -4 feet below the earth under a house in Red Hook, Broolklyn), inscribed with crests, and pastoral or historical scenes, with glazes of dry, "prussian" blue.
"Symbol of Mountains"
6 x 8.4 inches
egg tempera on hand made paper
Aug., 1987