"Focus"
oil on wood panel, 2'x16", 2'x2'

A set of two paintings that I'm doing for my Intermediate Painting class. The assignment was to create a diptych, triptych, or assemblage with some sort of metaphorical meaning. So these will either be hinged together in some way or they'll have weird things attached to them. I haven't decided which.

For once, I might actually write up a statement about my work. The idea behind these two pieces is that what you focus on changes the way you see things. The plane window is a metaphor for a person's outlook on the world. Currently, both paintings are missing an essential second layer: the raindrops on the window. The first painting will have the raindrops in clear focus, and as a result, the background is blurred and the viewer only sees a gray-blue blur. The second painting will have the raindrops in blurry doublevision, but the outside scene is clear.