After my resolution to devote time to my gallery work, I obsessed with painting these passageways. It doesn't take a Sigmund Freud to figure out why.
The career transition I made was a prospect both compelling yet unnerving, so my dreams were filled with these iconic representations of my ambivalences. Most seemed to be subjective derivations of experiences in previous years, exploring ruins of castles and abbeys in the UK.
In the case of this particular example, I placed the symbol of my soul consciousness or desires on the other side, waiting for fulfillment. Waiting for me to come into the full light.
Additional images from WINDOW TO THE SUN
Share your thoughts…
We’d love to hear your feedback. Please let us know your thoughts, questions, etc!
Like what you see? Subscribe!
We’re posting art every day on Substack. Don’t want to miss anything? Subscribe to get a weekly email including a recap of daily art posts.
To receive every art post by email, you can opt-in by visiting your account and then clicking the toggle for Daily Art.
Hello, Michael. Love reading about your evolution as an artist. I met you briefly at a con many years ago, but spent many hours looking at your work in person or in books. I wrote about my own artistic evolution in my blog, and mentioned you in this post from 2022 (about 2/3 of the way in): https://hinterlandsblog.com/bucket-list-sloths-younger-dryas-impact-science-fiction-fandom-fanzines-hugo-awards/
I love how the light is touching the most broken parts of the wall and passageway. It's like the way desire reaches us through the worn edges of our current situations.