Life is but a stage

Deliveries Only

Another work along the same line  of the city scene I did earlier this year. Like the previous piece it is acrylic on paper and based on a photograph of a street in nearby Bethesda. I experimented in both with adding a lot of texture to the paint, in this case with pumice gel that I felt  added to the feeling of concrete and harsh summer light.  The point of the painting was to include as many details of city life as possible, to have some respect for the lives lived in each window, but to also to have the painting work abstractly as pictorial space, to have the eye led gradually into and out of the painting. Secondarily there is a little mini-drama going on of a delivery van parked in the street and a car having to cross into the opposite lane to pass it. Drama might be too strong a word, but we do take our driving infractions seriously here in Bethesda.

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