Complete Mother Figure
Mother Figure There is an implanted need, an implanted desire for the idea. If we do not have, we must create for ourselves an impression that fulfills as needed. Often in our attempts to find this created desire will lead…
Chris
I am a middle-aged painter, presently live in Toronto, Canada. Have come back to painting after many years away, so have little to show professionally. My work featured in blogs, online magazines and galleries.
Suspended Perpendicular
Perpendicular Another day hanging around. Your feet are off the ground, dangling from a bar intended for play for some and exercise for others. How long can you and your friends suspend above the ground. Laying with the horizon, or…
Pride We All Shimmer
Pride The music plays, the party is on. Everyone shimmers in this summer party. All is accepted, nobody is disallowed. So let’s Dazzle each other and be proud of who we are. No need to hide in the closet…
Bath Time Quiet Time
Bath Time Water room warms the child barely awake in your arms. Lulled back into the womb with the water. Hands caress, cleaning the skin from the day’s events. Then being wrapped tightly in blankets. To rest in your arms…
Behind The Door
Door In the bathroom not totally exposed to the hall, your body naked in the tub kneeling. Your instructions are unclear, but you wait for fear. All the preparations have been made. You still wait, not aware of what might…
Elephants Heard Baby
Elephants Such a noble giant among its comrades that is gently unassuming. For something so large seems to disappear into the landscape. A part rather than a competitor. Living up to its nobility, it cares for the young, protected…
Swing Set on The Hill
Swing Set You’ve left the safe seat now your body flies through the air. Trying to control your eventual contact with the ground. But for this moment you are free flying through the air, imagining. What great heights you can…
Group of Consent
Consent All together in a room, not forced but maybe uncomfortable. Decisions made for others, not necessarily for oneself. Here we are so let’s enjoy now that you are here clothes off bodies warm. All together and what may become…
Moment Before Nothing
Nothing You have crossed the end, there is little time, what thoughts just before. Maybe a smile of a great life or a profound fear of a death that you imagine. Balancing before the abyss, unable, as I say, no…
Cindy Sherman Russian Dolls
Cindy Sherman Artists work primarily in photographic self-portraits, picturing in different atmospheres and characters. 1972, arts department at Buffalo State University, majored in painting. Became frustrated with the limitations of painting and took up photography. Untitled Film Stills, was a…