DAY
AFTER
SUMMER
This
extraordinary painting, entitled, “Day After Summer” gives a new meaning to
realism, of such magnificent completeness. His astonishing attention to detail
is unmatched in the world of art today. Here the artist poses questions relating
to time, its nature, meaning, and passage, with a view toward learning of time’s
effects upon our inner experience of living.
A
skate left abandon, lies leisurely to a hypnotic summer breeze, as innocence
releases its grip from the distant sounds of children, as life to death foreshadowed
in a fallen toy soldier, reposing within a world of trust in an era of unquestioning
belief, emblemized in a coca cola bottle cap of a post war era, fades into the
seasons, in fallen leaves. A ball invites a game of jacks with only a single
jack, a precursor of things to come, prismatic light in the memories of a passing
day that still play under shaded trees.
