Cupola Monolit
© 2020
Media: acrylic on layered plexiglas panels in box
Location: in the studio
Hover/tap here for Price $4800
72 x 14 x 2.25 inches
(the wider base is 2.5 high x 26 x 14 inches)
*** For those of you with low vision:
This is a free-standing painting, a stele that you can walk around, like a 2-inch thick slab of white plexiglas that rises from a white base to a square, semi-transparent painting at eye level. The painting, on several layers of clear plexiglas, is of a tall white cupola on a rooftop in bright sunlight. A classic colonial American-style cupola with six sides filled with louvers, topped with a green dome lit by the bright sun almost white in its highlight, sitting atop an earth-green hip roof against a bright blue sky with fluffy white clouds piled two-thirds of the way up.
The accompanying video shows the painting in close-up with the camera moving around it slowly to show the depth of the images on three layered plexiglas panels within the 2-inch clear box, and how these images move in parallax, in way similar to the facets of a cut crystal. It tries to show the light that is caught in the colors by being lit from all sides at once, but none of this can be perfectly conveyed in photography.
