Mermaid, Remembered
© 2020
Media: acrylic on clear plexiglass panels in plexi boxes
Location: in the studio
Hover/tap here for Price $3900 framed
two boxes totaling 22 x 29-3/4 x 3 inches with 1-3/4" gap in between (56 x 76 x 7.5 cm with a 4.5 cm gap)
framed: 28.5 x 36 inches (73 x 92 cm)
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For those of you with low vision:
This is a diptych (two panels side by side) made with transparent paint on light-filled clear plexiglass boxes. Each image appears double-exposed (two images layered together) with a transparent nautical chart faintly overlaid on both. The first impression is of the kaleidoscopic composition that the images make all together. The left-side panel appears to be a close-up of a white dinghy with rich amber-colored wood benches, trim, and an oar, with a cyan water background. Layered into that image is the blue-grey silhouette of a mermaid and an arrow pendant hanging in a window looking out of the gabled silhouette of a shack. The right-side is the view from under a leafy-green tree on sun-streaked shady grass looking onto a distant dock in sunshine and dazzling water with two small figures sitting together. Layered into that is the view out of French doors onto a porch with white columns and an curly-curved railing mortly in shade, looking onto a seascape in bright sunlight. Each image is painted twice, faintly, on both the front and the middle panel of the box, which adds up to the color saturation visible and provides parallax that intrigues the sense of depth, transparency, and light. As you stand closer to the painting, the nautical chart becomes visible and it reveals that, along with the assortment of place names and scattered abbreviations for the conditions that sailors will find for anchoring in a spot, such as rky, brk, sy, Foul, etc., there are also these words:
Someone was round here
asking questions
about someone
who looks like you
I said
I don't know
where you are
