SUBTERRANEANS
Companion piece to CLIMBER and THE RED STEP, this painting is firmly set within my Faded Star series.
My original conception of the image didn’t seem right somehow, and I had been wondering how I could improve on it. While attending my daughter’s winter music concert at her school, the answer came to me and I could see it in my mind’s eye. Fortunately I had a little pad of paper and a pencil in my pocket on which to sketch it while it was still fresh in my mind.
The perspective is false. For some reason, whenever I tried to make the picture do what I wanted it to do via the conventional laws of perspective, it lost its focus, the feel of ascending immensity going on forever. So I discarded true perspective in order to paint it the way that felt right.
This painting later became the cover for a comic by Harlan Ellison.
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Subterraneans is perhaps my all-time favorite. I can really identify with the theme. It seems to absolutely captures my life’s journey. I can just imagine the figure looking up at the climb and sayings “Ugh.…. f******k. I’ve got all long way to go. Best keep going”. It resonates even more this November.
I've always loved this image.