Paintings of Boots
These studies of ancient worn-out shoes and industrial workers’ boots portray the corpses of once working footwear–which are visually richer in death than in life-the ghosts of people and times past- and the passing of an age of hardship and heavy industry.
The great beauty of very old worn leather and fragments of rusting metal, glowing in warm sunlight, evoke a lifetime of wear, toil and the individuals who once wore them, and perhaps recall the original meaning of nature mort.
The great beauty of very old worn leather and fragments of rusting metal, glowing in warm sunlight, evoke a lifetime of wear, toil and the individuals who once wore them, and perhaps recall the original meaning of nature mort.
first boot 30 x 20" oil on paper
second boot 31 x 20" oil on paper
third boot 30 x 21" oil on paper
fourth boot 28 x 18" oil on paper
eighth boot 31 x 21" oil on paper
ninth boot 30 x 21" oil on paper
two shoes 1 30 x 22" oil on paper
two shoes 2 29 x 21" oil on paper
two boots 27 x 22" oil on paper
fifth boot 30 x 23"oil on paper
tenth boot 28 x 20" oil on paper
eleventh boot 30 x 21" oil on paper
