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"Jigsaw"
28 x 20"
Acrylic on Cradled Birch, 2011
Gyrfalcon
$7,200
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Jigsaw began when I encountered this beautiful white gyrfalcon on a trip to Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma, WA. I was there to research musk oxen for a commission that hasn’t panned out yet, but the trip was far from wasted. It was devastatingly cold, so much so that even the native Washingtonians were grumbling about it, but I suffered through to take full advantage of what was a gorgeous, albeit small, facility. I’d wanted to paint a gyrfalcon for years, and I’d had in mind for some time a series of paintings in which white would be an integral element, so this encounter naturally put my gears in motion. My primary interest here was the bird’s pattern. Although the bird’s feather pattern does become somewhat simplified as he “fades out” towards the tail, I decided not to have him transition directly into the abstract geometry as was my initial plan, rather to allow for the simple juxtaposition of organic and inorganic patterns to create the necessary connections in the mind of the viewer. This box-like “jigsaw” pattern began with a piece called “Simulacra” (see commissions) in which the geometry was intended to directly represent the pixilation of a degraded digital image. Here, the presence of these “pixels” is less literal, but the stark contrast between linear and curvilinear, geometric and organic, still speaks not only to the bird’s confinement in an unnatural setting, but also to the ongoing struggle to maintain nature’s place in an increasingly disconnected technological age.
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