ARTIST'S COMMENTARY (continued)
In this painting, called "The Lonely Mountain", I was not feeling lonely, actually.
I had had the thought that if I traveled enough, painting mountains in the shape of pyramids, I might actually one day encounter a mountain, created by nature in the perfect form of a pyramid, . This imagined peak, I went on to personify, symbolicly, on some level in my day-dream, and thus to spiritually diefy and to meditate upon.
It would be "the peak which had inspired the first ancient pyramid builders, a God of mountains, a place of power, inspiration and virility. A source of life force and a bridge between the realms of earth and heaven."
This time a theatrical symetricality was employed on the bottom of the composition, while distant mountains are made to look more distant, nearly lost in
mist.
"The Lonely Mountain"
Aug., 1987
egg tempera on hand made paper
6 x 8.4 inches