Title:  Minnesota Pumpkins in May

Completed in:  2008

Size:  6" x 6" x 1.5"

Materials:  Acrylic on deep gallery stretched canvas

The words read:  I think maybe we died.

I think maybe this is Spring.

     

   

 

(Enlarged to show details.)

 

(The painting continues around the deep staple-free sides.)

      

MY REACTION:  Pumpkins in Minnesota never live to see Spring.  Spring is a myth of wild greenness where everything is healthy and growing.  Unlike the Fall that pumpkins live through when everything is waning.  For Minnesota Pumpkins, Spring is Heaven, the afterlife.

Somehow, these two find themselves alive in May.  Impossible!

CONTENT:  We each have limits to what we may know and experience.  But the world goes on beyond all our dreams. 

ARTISTIC CONCERNS:  This is a knife painting with many layers of color.  Then I used brushes to add the words and create those bright warm pumpkins.

  

I think maybe we died.

I think maybe this is Spring.

     

   

 

   

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