Deadliest Catch
Urethanes and acrylics 38 x 34

{I had been working on several paintings simultaneously the past four months. The difficulties are predictable regarding focus, concentration and exhaustion.

In anticipation of a show, I had ramped up my work schedule to 16-18 hour days, working seven days a week. This gave me the benefit of producing in a month paintings that would otherwise be produced in 3-4 months under normal working hours.}

This work is based on two main parts. The large figures are actually over 10 stories high, making the street level storefronts and passersby appear miniature and hyperreal, or in the reverse making the large figures appear as giants. In reality, they are merely silkscreened images on cloth draped around apartment windows above another one of my favorite stores in this series, Duane Reade.

I could not be as meticulous with the figures or their sea creatures as they were much too large and needed to appear in a softer depth of field. This accentuated the illusion of the sea creatures actually sitting above the store itself on its roof.

Well anyway, take a look and see if you like it.