City of Glass 3 - (Window) 150x120cms
15 MAY 2012
The Tower is revealed, dwarfing Manhattan. After City of Glass 1 and 2 , with Manhattan placed on the extreme right and extreme left of the canvases respectively, in this painting Manhattan is deliberately centered, balancing on the bottom edge. The left side of the Tower was slashed deliberately to break the symmetry. In the studio shot below, taken after the first session, you can see how the drips misbehaved on their way down. I like the way Manhattan appears caged in and almost human-like, Baconesque. This could be an idea for another painting - in my work, the paintings feed each other, ideas often disappearing are-emerging in another piece. The ziggurat-shape in this piece comes from the mythology of the Tower of Babel and the Paramount building in New York. Central Park becomes a 'window' and the building appears ablaze...
beginnings...
The Paramount Building, New York