Portfolio: Paintings and Windows

Part of the Healing Series. Just when he thinks he is certainly going to drown in the turbulent waters of an angry ocean, an angel reaching down from the Heavens rescues him. This painting resides in the cavernous collection of friend, patron and Louis Perticone, Curator of Artisan Works.

There came a time during the first series of treatments for Hep C that I decided to stop using the color black. For the darkest areas I used the deepest of blues and purples. This painting also illustrates a classic tucked or fetal position I spent many days and weeks in while enduring the side effects of treatments. Painting was a way for me to distract my mind from focusing on what I was feeling physically and instead channel the pain and anguish into my painting. Egg shapes and figures in fetal positions were all I could think of doing. It was something that I was familiar with.just as with the writings. I wrote what I was experiencing. This painting is currently housed within the cavernous museum and art facility of Artisan Works. Curated by Louis Perticone.

As with most things, this painting is way more impessive in person. You can come see it for yourself at my studio in Artisan Works. It is most often mistaken for a photograph. I like painting images that are photo real, with the exception of the fact that doing so generally creates a lot of tension in my neck and shoulders. Photo realistic paintings are not as forgiving as my more loose and freestyle abstracts, non-reps and florals, it is an exercise in control. I used to own an Olympus D450 zoom which took the most amazing night shots I've as yet to see in any other camera of comparable price. The photo used for reference for this painting was one such example of its capability. As odd and erie as the light seems in this painting, I did not stray far from what I saw in that photograph taken one foggy morning on Commercial St near the Post Office.

One of the many Healing Series paintings I managed to paint while enduring two separate series of treatments for Hepatitis C. On the days that I felt my utmost worst, I lost myself within the Healing Series. It happens that I did my best works when I felt my worst. I opened door after door, within myself, losing myself and with that finding a "new self" within the healing process. The meds that I had to take were meant to heal my body but now it seems they had also had some effect on my mind. An urge presented itself within me, the desire to voice what I was feeling, to make a record of it in any fashion that presented itself to me. Circular images, fetal positions and origins of birth kept forming within the slick surfaced inner sludge surging through my being. I became a traveler of my own mind and inner-self space. I realized a new sense of being, lost within and merging myself into the essence of my works. I was driven to voice the imagery and record it for future reference, a reminder of where I had been to compare to with where I was headed and am going now.

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This is a large scale painting done on wood. When I painted this piece I had someone special in mind and informed her of this upon its completion. Koi represent peace and tranquility to me. I have a large Koi tattoo on my back and think of it as my Center of Tranquility and Relaxation. Resides in the vast collection of my works owned by friend and patron Rita Zizza, MA.

This painting resides in the collection of Louis Perticone, curator of Artisan Works, Rochester, NY.

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