#fadedstar — Public Fediverse posts
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CW: Artistic nudity
CAUSEWAY (1992)
Oil on Canvas - 48" X 36"The colors came from a foggy morning walk at a reservoir near my home.
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EMPIRE OF DREAMS (2005)
Acrylic on Gessoboard - 28" x 22"A world of concrete works in disarray, thrown about by some unknown cataclysm. 1/3
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SILVER TIDE (2006)
Acrylic on Canvas - 60" x 36"Painted as I was 55 turning 56 and pondering the intransigence of time. 1/2
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SUBTERRANEANS (1992)
Acrylic on Canvas - 44" x 33"Companion piece to CLIMBER and THE RED STEP, this painting is firmly set within my Faded Star series. My original conception of the image didn’t seem right somehow, and I had been wondering how I could improve on it. 1/4
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LE CHEMIN ALLUMÉE (2008)
Acrylic - 36" X 36""The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent...
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CHASM (2000)
Acrylic on Panel - 30" x 20"I keep a sketchpad next to the bed for recording ideas which arrive as I am falling asleep or waking up... prime time for my "muse channel."
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ORBIS SCIENTIARUM (1997)
Acrylic on Panel - 24" x 36"It is frequently assumed that if we try hard enough, there are no limits to our understanding of the universe. 1/4
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IN A WORLD OF HER OWN (2016)
Acrylic on Canvas - 36" x 48"This painting arose from musing on an interview that Stanley Kubrick gave in 1968, a source of inspiration I have gone back to over the years, revisiting comments made by the director. 1/3
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Some time after cancer surgery, I experienced compelling waking dreams. I didn't know what they were about, but I felt I had to paint them.
EBB and FLOOD (2000) were done on faith-it didn't matter if anyone—even myself—understood what they were about, they had to be made real. 1/3
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LIGHT BEHIND THE STAR (2001)
Oil on Canvas - 24" x 24"For me, the faded star is a symbol of despair and disenchantment, but in our children we find the possibilities of a brighter future, a light beyond the negatives of day to day existence.
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OUT OF THE SHADOWS (2014)
Acrylic on Panel - 12" x 24"With this painting I revisit themes developed in my "Passage" series, featured heavily in my first couple of one-man shows at the Tree’s Place gallery. 1/3
#personalvisions #imaginativerealism #fineart #passage #fadedstar
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THE INEXORABLE EQUATION (1997)
Acrylic on Canvas - 48" x 36"The window contains a beautiful but threatening view, seen from a place of illusory refuge.
https://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/inexorable-equation/
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TERMINUS (2007)
Acrylic on Canvas - 36" X 48"Growing up in the fifties and sixties most of us fully expected the progress so evident in society and the space sciences to continue at the same headlong pace they had shown during those years. 1/3
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THE SCALE OF ETERNITY (1999)
Oil on Gessoboard - 25" x 40"On close examination the linear form the man is climbing is marked with gradations like a ruler. At the time I painted SCALE, I was thinking a lot about our innate drive to quantify, judge or rate aspects of our collective human experience. We can't seem to overcome our need to define the best, the prettiest, the most powerful or the biggest.
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CAUSEWAY (1992)
Oil on Canvas - 48" X 36"The colors came from a foggy morning walk at a reservoir near my home. 1/3
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EMPIRE OF DREAMS (2005)
Acrylic on Gessoboard - 28" x 22"A world of concrete works in disarray, thrown about by some unknown cataclysm. 1/