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Old 03-19-2004, 12:04 PM   #13
Leslie Ficcaglia Leslie Ficcaglia is offline
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Originally Posted by Garth Herrick
Dear Leslie,

Hi neighbor! Thank you very much.

These three paintings were not commissions, so yes, I felt freer to be experimental, and these are not my children. I have a daughter and I need to paint her again, hopefully soon.

Painting 1 was a neighbor 23 years ago who actually hid after knocking at the door, and I made him re-stage this for a photo reference.

Painting 2's reference photo also goes back 23 years. I have always been drawn to the play of light in this image, and I am currently working on a new interpretation of this image for a show next month. I am not sure about the strange cut-out shapes anymore, so this time its a rectangle.

Painting 3 depicts very distant 10th cousins living in remote hills bordering Kentucky and Tennessee; in fact they don't know which state they live in! The house seems to straddle the border. I shot the reference in 1991 as a stereo set of slides, and then constructed a stereo slide viewer to work from.

Garth
Garth, I only noticed the "strange cut-out shapes" when you mentioned them - possibly a drawback of this cyber medium. I think they work well, though. And I somehow knew that Painting 3 depicted Appalachia; how neat!

And how does one trace cousinship to the tenth power, anyway?
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