Vanitas

Here's a new one, treating the theme of perceptual painting as a container of experience. I have again adopted the square format, seeing it as a box within which to store this container. In keeping with the perceptual painter's aim to lay claim or stake out a particular section of reality I have kept it to a tidy 12" x 12"- a square foot, the real estate agent's unit of measure.

 

Here it is in progress. Gotta say, this painting entailed a whole lotta staring...