Between Scylla and Charybdis Painting by Janet STRAYER

Painting: Acrylic on Paper.

The title of this painting, derived from Greek mytholoogy, is an idiom for having to choose between two difficulties. Strong graphic elements, a hint of personifiation, and tonal-textual interactions in this expressive abstract convey of sense of movement trapped, visualized as if in a dramatic struggle between horizontal force impeded by the downward pull (gravity?); between forces of solidity and of fragmentation.