2025.05 - LOS ANGELES ART ASSOCIATION

THEME: HABITUAL - Los Angeles/CA/USA/online

THE BACK STORY

TITLE: WHAT’S LEFT OF MY HOMETOWN - Geismar, Louisiana

          After moving, as a newlywed, to Los Angeles this painting was created.  In subsequent journeys “back home” I always felt like the spider web.  I found myself drawn to natural scenarios that represented what I was feeling inside… trying to find my direction, my center. Feeling the idealistic past rushing away all around me in LA I saw the “modern” world, but returning to Louisiana I saw the patterns of my deep roots.  Created in 1977, symbolically, in this painting, I expressed being pulled in all directions. When going “home”, I saw crumbing wood, rusty metal, my known world trying to hold on, much like the spider’s web.

          Looking into any web, I am pulled into the construction, the light bouncing off its many parts, its rhythm, what it’s attached to in its environment, what is caught within it.  In 2025, I am still attracted to this part of my environment but for vastly different reasons.  Now I experience it as the threads of connection.

MEDIUM: ACRYLIC ON CANVAS

SIZE: 36”x 36” - 91.44cm x 91.44 - YEAR: 1977