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