The idea for this painting happened shortly after my studio cat, Foxy, stepped in my palette and tracked paint all over my desk. Luckily, I caught her mid-crime and purple-pawed before she could decorate the rest of my furniture.
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Four separate canvases form this polyptych composition spanning ten feet. Chrysanthemum blossoms jostle in the foreground. Adder’s tongue ferns sprout from mossy branches. Hardy little juniper trees assert themselves on distant mountain peaks. The mist draping the mountains is cool and heavy. Don’t miss the smoldering young embers growing up into flames on the right panel.
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This painting is very unusual. Unlike all my other paintings, it wasn’t designed in my normal waking state—it was a gift from a dream. I don’t fully understand its meaning and complexities myself, but it’s exciting to be in a sea of possible interpretations. Although there’s a bit of a dark velvety isolation in the atmosphere of this piece, the rooster in front looks directly at the viewer with his critical, sassy eye and makes everything ok. “You can bob with us,” he seems to say.
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