2025.05 - EXHIBIZON.COM

THEME: EYES - Ontario/Canada/online 

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TITLE: ICU

          In 2020 while driving through an alley, I noticed a large canvas against a wall.  I stopped thinking I could reuse the stretcher bars. Upon turning the canvas around I found a huge painting of a cat. Bringing it home I stored it away. The eyes of the cat captivated me.  I couldn’t just paint over the original.  But the eyes were like water drops to me.  

          On a very windy day, lots of palm try “dressing” or cluster littered my driveway.  As I gathered it to throw out, I started studying the beauty of all the colors, textures, lines, shapes and as usual… I couldn’t throw any of it away.  I thought maybe one day I’d find a use for it.  Adding yet another saved “thing” to my storage, I might find a use for this section of my art storage tiny house, the connection between covid masking wearing-the cat canvas-the palm “trash” all seemed to click.  ICU has become part of my covid art series and won several awards. 

MEDIUM: MIX-MEDIA … UNKNOWN PAINT ON CANVAS

COTTON AMERICA FLAG MASK, PALM YARD “TRASH”

SIZE: 48”x 60” - 121.92cm x 152.4 - YEAR: 2020