NM Paintings 2018 > Behind Each Curtain ...

Behind Each Curtain ... worn red velvet
ink, acrylic, and tempera on paper
48" x 36"
February 2018
Behind Each Curtain ... worn red velvet
-detail
ink, acrylic, and tempera on paper
48" x 36"
February 2018
Behind Each Curtain Study ... portal
ink, acrylic, and tempera on paper
30" x 19"
February 2018
Behind Each Curtain ... winter
ink, acrylic, and tempera on paper
48" x 36"
February 2018
Behind Each Curtain ... winter 
-detail
ink, acrylic, and tempera on paper
48" x 36"
February 2018
Behind Each Curtain ... twilight
ink, acrylic, and tempera on paper
48" x 36"
February 2018
Behind Each Curtain ... twilight  
-detail
ink, acrylic, and tempera on paper
48" x 36"
February 2018

We subdivide our lifetime into decades as we also subdivide our days into hours and minutes. Each increment is an artificial marker and we pass these as we would mileposts on a journey, aware of the distances measured and incapable of changing the self-imposed divisions of space and time.

Often we hear of ‘living in the moment’ which suggests that somehow the usual measurements of time have been dispensed with. It is also suggested that this state of mind is neither easily attained nor easily maintained for extended periods of time. We seem to need to measure our lives’ progress.

Nonetheless, as though ‘first there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is’ each increment is actually more like the parting of a curtain beyond which is yet another curtain in the distance. Beyond each curtain then, a sense of promise or perhaps apprehension but as far as we can see there is no complete view of a final curtain. So for us, beyond each curtain another awaits.