Detail from A Reunion in Trinidad installation,acrylic on canvas, 1996
The conventional painted rectangle on the wall encased the family just as if it were still under plastic in a book. I needed them to be as much an inescapable part of the painted world as they are of mine. I needed to make a painting you could walk into. So the folks came off the walls. I cut them out of the "background" and set them loose.
Detail from A Reunion in Trinidad installation,acrylic on canvas, 1996
Godliness and craziness. We thrive on it. The canvasses, hanging and wall-mounted, have an edgy relationship, apart yet needing each other. The figures could stand on their own but are more complete when contrasting with a hazardous landscape.