Office Dreaming Drawing

Original abstract pastel drawing on paper mounted on canvas. Side edges of canvas painted black, ready to hang. Build-up of layers of rich blocks of color with a velvety luminosity emanating a lot of colored light and an undercurrent of movement. Part of the Lost Angels series. Created for a solo exhibit at the Notre Dame des Arts Chapel Gallery, in Ubbergen, the Netherlands. The idea of art in a chapel, a large space with abundant light, reverberating sound, stained glass intercepting the light from above, the meditative special effects of religious ceremony. The site was once a convent and a boarding school for girls, "Notre Dame des Anges." Behind the idea of the art is that humans have the potential to do great things (creatively and technically), but this may go unrealized as things get in the way. Nevertheless the internal, portable, positive energy of the individual, though dormant, can become awakened and a great source of happiness if it is allowed to be free. This is a personal matter. One of the office chair works. You have to put your hopes and dreams on hold while working all day long at the office.