Perilous Journey

An abstract scene including outlines of a running dog, a mountain, a hand pulling a tree, and melting glaciers, primarily in yellows, greens, and pink

A large perilous journey painting filled with contradictory forms - a foot, a flower, a plant, a tablecloth, some hands, and more. Colorful and highly textured

Perilous Journey VI is a colorful, highly textured, expressionist painting that includes a fish, a funnel and a couple of hands, and entrails.

Perilous Journey, an expressionistic image combining abstract shapes and heads in pink, yellow, and green colors

Perilous Journey is a painting full of expressionist color and texture. Figurative details include an eye, a ribcage, a hand.

Perilous Journey 4 is a colorful, highly textured, expressionist painting that includes four heads and a mountain

Perilous Journey VII is a colorful, highly textured, expressionist painting that includes feet, a funnel and a couple of hands, and eyes. The colors are high-key pinks and greens.

perilous journey 3 is an expressionist painting with bold colors and swirling shapes, including some funs, a fish, a funnel, and a wheel.

perilous journey 5 is an expressionist painting with bold colors and swirling shapes, including some hands, a body, a funnel, and some blocks.

Through technical and pictorial contradictions, “Perilous Journey” paintings invoke the tensions that are analogous to our attempts to live placid normal lives, through circumstances that should call us to urgent action.

I am recently interested in a concept called “hypernormalization,” the acceptance of a simplified or distorted version of reality, or the belief that a broken system is normal. The term was coined by Russian historian Alexei Yurchak to describe the final days of the Soviet Union.

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