New Values Painting

According to psychopathologists peoples abiding tendency is to avoid confronting loss. Instead, they cherish it by refusing to change and subject the relics that remain to endless emotional ransacking as a continuation of their own withdrawal, Imaged in the works of Michael Boffey, these remnants, here in the form of cut flowers contained on a base ground and cast in bronze are not superfluities then. These faded fancies have been transformed through various nominal and procedural processes, both gentle and violent, to allow a meditation on reminiscence. The playing fields of memory contain a superabundance of richly complex accounts, sometimes embellished and sometimes faded. Apparently nostalgia is a very bad thing, but despite benign advice about not looking back, we have little idea of what our world will be like in the future. It seems that coping with the fears and pleasures of now and with those of tomorrow does necessitate acknowledgement of a past.