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The Deluge, 2022
One thing to note is that the cheetahs are not simply on a killing spree but more hitching a ride on the wildebeests and a galloping herd of giraffes as they search for the Lord's Biblical animal-rescuing Noah's Ark project as He works on drowning all of that disgraceful and human Sodom and Gomorrah lot via His majestic Ark of Noah.
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THE PARADE began with my photographing a group of closest friends gathered on the porch of our house in Francestown, NH, where I have lived and worked for more than fifty years. They are watching the annual Francestown Labor Day Parade which is reflected in the windows behind them. The actual present of my photograph is 2014 but the two added musicians coming in from the left on a large bicycle to join the parade, have arrived from a previous past; they are Janis Joplin and Bob Dylan.
Time, in my imagery. likes to be fluid, the past wants to coexist with future. Like Joplin and Dylan, the three shorebirds, two egrets, six foxes and seven geese are here by virtual invitation only. Like Joplin and Dylan half of the friends gathered on the porch are actually no longer with us while half still endure and thrive.
The annual parade in Francestown will be held again on this next labor day and again on next year's--but will there soon be waterbirds close enough to fly above it?
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PASSING THROUGH is a mixture of time, location, musicians and surprising marsupials. The place is the oldest cemetery in Francestown, NH, where the Joachim String Quartet is going to play a piece which Brahms wrote for them in the late 90th century.
Five kangaroos are gliding through the tranquil scene.
There are three versions of this image. One included our own Francestown NH house in the background. Another used Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin cycling along the front of the cemetery grounds. I soon abandoned the house and the Dylan/Joplin duo who were then passed on to THE PARADE image for their trip to the Francestown “Labor Day" 2014 celebration. Here they will be eagerly greeted by the marchers.
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In my latest print, PARIS UNDER SIEGE, the Seine rises to meet the streets of Paris while the Notre Dame burns as people rush to quell the flames. The Seine may well eventually flood much of Paris and even cause Montmartre to slide down into a whole new positioning with all the beauty and cultural history that went with it.
The Notre Dame fire was an appalling accident, but climate change is almost being contrived by too much general indifference, may we curse the days in time.
The dinosaur is an echo of the pre-human Yucatan destruction of the meteor crash, which scrambled away with all our large creatures into the Earth's new burial grounds. The birds are all waterbirds, and along with the leviathan dinosaur, echo the climate change slowly coming to take over our seas, rivers, and large creature habitations.
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AFTER HOURS II (2020)
AFTER HOURS II is the second state of the 2019 AFTER HOURS I. The courtyard of the Louvre has been invaded by a number of etchings by Albrecht Durer on leave from the Louvre's Print Department. These prints
celebrate God's magnificent domination of earth and skies (and, incidentally, of Durer's own dominance over their imagery.)
God's salvation of the pious, evoked in the Latin text (Rex Tremendae) is from the Requiem Mass. The words float in the sky, where Saint George, supervised by an angel, is in the act of slaying the flying dragon.
These images lead me to some more earthly dragons: the dinosaurs whose extinction 60 million years ago were brought about by another bolt from heaven, the Yucatan asteroid. Here my thoughts turn to the global threats to our own time and to the rest of all our own planet's species.