Mythinburbia

Mythinburbia #3

32" x 36"

Mythinburbia #5

65" x 100"

Mythinburbia

"Years ago I tried to free myself from him and went from the mythologies of the suburbs to the games with time and infinity.”

-Borges

The suburban landscape that I grew up in has become a backdrop or staging ground for this group of pictures. I try to call forth from its immense secularity a kind of poetics that can range in subject from intensely personal/Theological reflections, to social and even international provocations. Robin Boyd’s insight is as relevant here, as in my thoughts about the desert: “fear of reality, a denial of the need for the everyday environment to reflect the heart of the human problem” - Boyd.

This particular piece, Mythinburbia 7 has been around for several years, and I have exhibited it with a different format in 2017. I think that the combination of completing Means Of Conveyance and the pandemic pushed me to re-visit this piece, lengthening it into a more panoramic orientation, losing some imagery in order to more aggressively empty it out. It also reflects a strong interest in using the gravitational force of a small, focusing image with which to animate or orient much a much larger space.

Mythinburbia #6 (One for Lauren)

60" x 55"