The Goias Series
Ten paintings, done during a six-month stay in 2005 on a fazenda (ranch) in central Brazil. All are 21 ⅝” x 27 ⅝”, or 55 x 70 cms, on ⅛” acrylic sheet, backed by canvas, and mounted on wooden supports.This is special set of paintings for me. The seclusion allowed concentration, and pushed me to a new level, consolidating diverse concepts into a cohesive series. They bring back to my mind walking the fields with the nine dogs, encountering ant-eaters and aardvarks, termite mounds taller than me, crazy winter thunderstorms and indescribable cloudscapes.
Viewers will not remark, “That is Brazil!”, but there is something of the soil present… in fact, tailings from ant colonies provided pigment for several of the pieces, as do clays from the streams, leaves, found objects, a feather from Joaninia the parrot, and even a long-legged frog.
