Achilles/ Tent, Dreaming an Inner Space

As the hero dreams his name.

Here it seems I dreamed my form which I have been using in varying forms to this day. In the deep space of landscape I saw a hard surface which I called Achilles / Shield.

Deep dreaming space is juxtaposed to the surface of reality. We clapped our hands and said, " Here!"
Somehow meaning the truth.

I've made a version of this which was called Achilles/ Idea, a Voyage.

Actual painting on the Beach in California is where all this lead me. Finally the paintings own surface snapped to fore from deep space was the Idea. 

A sense of the Epic was in these paintings from my reading of the Iliad at this time. I wondered of life and didn't want to miss any of it.

1970's Figuration and Fairfield Porter

I used to paint out of doors with Paul Georges. It was never called landscape as Landscape as a genre was at the bottom of the list, a background for an idea or figure.

I was very young and absorbed these influences which carried on into Alex Katz who was also their friend.

This is a beginning reality I carry to this day in my Painting Along the Road I call it on a Blog I have.

Fairfield painted this one afternoon with us in Paul's backyard.

New Cycle Anderson Ranch, Twenty Minutes

The development of this figure has been the unconscious quest of my project. He is becoming an abstract form it seems. I realized a bit ago the hat is becoming the Universe. The Hero's Head which has been juxtaposed to sunflowers, and stars in the past, here is the whole Universe as his hat.

Nature part of all that, here in the drawing above is Florida as in Wallace Steven's poetry is the direction of warmth and Imagination.