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Awareness in Light

A morality play based upon a famous painting by Vermeer. It all has to do with awareness in light. All things brought up into the consciousness out of the shadows of the unconscious mind.

As I was doing this collage I became aware of the subtle play of serpentia in the red covering on the table, her dress, and the window frame.

In Vermeer's world time is frozen so that people too become part of a still life bathed in ethereal light.

This is a magnificent abstraction in black, gold, and red with the s-curves of white in blue that wind through the center edge-to-edge. My serpent continues the thematic structure, which I believe was something already implied. In a sense, I drew up the unconscious content and made it more visible.

Of course, Vermeer knew what he was about by leaving the serpent as an unconscious motif in the table cloth. My work is part of a process of critical understanding.

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Uploaded on April 8, 2008