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Ceremonial Games (middle panel of “Tribal Triptych”) |
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36" X 24" |
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"Using the same colors as in “Baltic Tales of Byzantium,” I painted a triptych (3 panels) where each painting related to the other, but told a different part of the evolution and decline of a mythical meso-American culture. "This time, the color source, even though it was similar, was from the earth itself. Rich loam of the rain forest, greens of the great tree canopy, colors of precious and semi-precious stones, and the yellow of maize. The first panel (canvas) was called “Conquest,” where war- like figures appear and the last was “Calculation,” wherein ruler figures contemplate trade and commerce. "I actually made up a name for this lost culture, and with the internet you can check to see if something you invent does not exist, but I thought that was perhaps going too far (a bit like the “Cardiff Giant" in upstate New York). In any case, I fell in love with the way these three canvases formed, a “history” that successfully combines esthetics of pottery, textiles and petroglyphs". |
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