Refreshed Tabletop?

I was feeling like my series had run its course. What had started off as an abstraction of reflections on living- fragments of recognizable objects, broken words, letters and numbers - had congealed into some objects on a tabletop. First it was in abstract space. It slowly evolved into a more concrete symbology and moved into the landscape. Looking through my sketchbooks, I realize i haven't really taken on my interest in architecture of public/private spaces- bars in particular. I've got a pile of drawings made in various bars. So when i came back to the canvas, it was only natural that i bring the tabletop back into a barspace. What i found surprising is the rendering of the people in the reflections/windows. It is another language to the painting. More pressing is the color- sense of darkness glowing and glazed colors reacting in extremes to natural or incandescent lighting.

Breaking Reticence, 36 x 48 inches. oil. 2007

Entice Existent, 48 x 36 inches. oil. 2007

Displaced Interiors

14 x 11 inches

Interjection

In the face of the unknowable, we tend to impose simplistic notions of how the world works. It would be easy to never notice anything beyond our self imposed/created visions of the universe, but I cant help but think there is more out there. This might capture some sense of the interruption with its ominous pure abstraction of the monolith.

Epic, 68" x 83"oil on canvas, 2007

The story: Here I am going along my way trying to figure out with all my heart, what combination of luck, beaurcratic ability, talent, skill, and determination it takes to bring my little world of art to the pantheon (yes, call me a self absorbed and egotistical artist if you must) and along comes a hint of mystery so large and strange, that makes it all seem incredibly futile and piddly. Is that the life of the artist?