October 26, 2011: Family Mysteries

I'm always trying to find out how events and the landscape evolved into the present. As a child, I was stunned to discover that the people and world around me had not always been as they were at that moment. Why was that old truck cab abandoned by the barn? Why was one aunt so bitter? Why were my grandparents at odds?  Over the years I asked questions and inherited caches of letters that fill in many lines of missing stitches. When I read these letters, I hear my family speaking to one another - and now me - across time and space. "River Passage," is a visual metaphor for the mystery of family history. This 16 x 12 oil on canvas will be included in Clayton Galleries "Small Works" show in Tampa for the holidays. http://www.claytongalleries.net