Urban Blindspots
Art, I find, often is a means of revealing the obvious. So often what holds us in awe, is actually there everyday and we simply fail to recognize it. So involved we are with living our lives. Art has this means of unveiling the mysteries of our everyday lives. To allow one the possibility of pausing and seeing anew is a wonderful gift that art brings equally to all.
This series is a reflection on the blindspots that often befall people living in urban centers (and elsewhere). So focused we become in watching the traffic signals, avoiding strange strangers and scurrying to a far, that we develop blindspots to the other lives that share our cities with us. Not just other people, but here in this city with waterfronts and situated under migratory bird paths , we sometimes ignore the wildlife that thrives within the city limits.
These are some of the daily going ons of the birds on this city’s waterfront. The concept was to allow kids to focus on the birds, realize that their realize the birds live here too, and then realize that the birds are just another layer of blindspots, that the water is there to be discovered in all its wonder as well. So a series of works painting a blindpsot to reveal yet another blindpsot.
Being intended for kids, I had hoped to show the works lower then usual for their ease of viewing, so that they might realize also that art speaks to them as well.
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20”x30” oil on canvas
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