Paintings
This House of Glass
Dirty Dirty Love
DDL: Coupling and The Embrace
Scenes from a Movie
A Deconstruction of Narrative
Drawings
Limans
The El Salvador Sketchbook
Moleskine
Sketchbook
Projects
À Partager
Birth (The Beginning), 20x 30 inches, 2004
A Decontruction of Narrative
As the name suggests, this body of work was created as an analytical deconstruction of the storytelling process. Always interested in narrative and its many forms, I decided to dissect the act itself in an attempt to understand more about the way we tell stories and what that says about who we are.
Giving myself the parameters of using one protagonist and one setting, I purposely worked out of order as I visually represented the key components of the prototypical western story: An establishment of a status quo, the disruption of the status quo due to a conflict, a leaving to repair the status quo, an encounter with someone/something that holds the knowledge/to the protagonist’s task, a transformation of the protagonist as he acquires that knowledge/key, a resolution after the conflict is overcome followed by a return home and eventual passing of the protagonist into ether/legend/history. It wasn’t until I’d completed the series and hung them in order that I noticed I’d created a narrative just by visualizing the concepts of a narrative.
Disruption, 20x 30 inches, 2004
Conflict, 20x 30 inches, 2004
Conflict, 20x 30 inches, 2004
The Dance, 20x 30 inches, 2004 (oil on gessoed paper)
Transformation, 20x 30 inches, 2004
Resolution 20x 30 inches, 2004
The Return, 20x 30 inches, 2004
Death (The End), 20x 30 inches, 2004
