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Pozzo's Observatory
ink and acrylic on paper
37" x 25"
December 2011
detail: Pozzo's Observatory
ink and acrylic on paper
37" x 25"
December 2011
Waiting for Orion
ink and acrylic on paper
38" x 25"
January 2011
detail: Waiting for Orion
ink and acrylic on paper
38" x 25"
December 2011
Pozzo's Secret Telescope
ink and acrylic on paper
37" x 25"
December 2011
detail: Pozzo's Secret Telescope
ink and acrylic on paper
37" x 25"
December 2011
Pozzo's Tourniquet
ink and acrylic on paper
37" x 25"
November 2011
detail - "Pozzo's Tourniquet"
ink and acrylic on paper
37" x 25"
November 2011
Pozzo's Cracked Carapace
ink and acrylic on paper
37" x 25"
November 2011
flangE toppL
ink and acrylic on paper
37" x 25"
November 2011
detail - flangE toppL
ink and acrylic on paper
37" x 25"
November 2011
Pozzo's Plank
ink and acrylic on paper
37" x 25"
October 2011
detail: "Pozzo's Plank"
ink and acrylic on paper
37" x 25"
October 2011
Pozzo's New Lung
ink and acrylic on paper
37" x 25"
November 2011
Pozzo's Naos
ink and acrylic on paper
37" x 25"
November 2011
Italian Parade Helmet
c. 1590
ink and acrylic on cardboard
25" x 20"
September 2011
Pozzo Playa
ink and acrylic on paper
37" x 25"
October 2011

While the term 'Grillenwerk' comes from the German Rococo for "bizarre fantasy," these ink paintings are not meant to be grotesque illustrations. Instead my intent is to question blind faith. Most of the ten paintings in this series include the name Pozzo in their titles. The reference is two-fold with either the Baroque Jesuit painter Fra Pozzo or the intelligent, domineering character in Becket's "Godot" making an appearance as reinforcements to the over-riding question referred to above. If an element of fantasy does exist in this work it is that of an unlikely architecture, one that threatens to topple at any moment. Living on the fault line in our ever-accelerated and often over-confident century, blind faith in the status quo, be it political, theological, ecological, technological, etc.,seems to warrant another look and even more deliberate questions than these paintings begin to ask. You decide.