Current Exhibition
ceremony of innocence
July 30 -August 23
Melt Studio Gallery, Base 31, Picton, Ontario
Altarpiece - acrylic on canvas, 132” x 108”
Altarpiece is inspired by the work of wartime and crisis photographers from events which occurred over the life span of the artist.
Five Girls - acrylic on canvas, 76” x 74"
Five young girls, captives, or playing in a safe place?
Look - acrylic on canvas, metal support 30” x 72”
News of the war? Porn? Cat videos?
Cassandra - oil on cradled panel
16” x 20”
As punishment for rejecting his advances, the god Apollo grants Cassandra the gift of prophecy, and the curse of never being believed. How many women today are not believed?
The Second Coming William Butler Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?