3:04 PM: there was way too much going on in this composition, and the nude in the upper center didn’t work at all; she drew your eye and that was all you could see. so now she’s a ghost image; one of many in this new series i’m creating.
the two schoolgirls however remin ,albeit slightly simplified and more integrated into the whole composition.
the transparent glass floor of the acropolis museum now reigns in the upper half of the painting. the nude ghost image establishes ambiguous mystery, while the creek water and branches in the lower section suggest a theme running through my works for the past 2 decades.
the two hs students on the school hallway floor bring up a period when mikela and i frequented colorado schools, in this case denver, where we suppported students in artfully discovering and telling their stories.