Kaleidoscope Moon for Children Gone Too Soon Number - 5 Flame and Flower Canvas Print

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Kaleidoscope Moon for Children Gone Too Soon Number - 5 Flame and Flower (Silk-Featherbrush Number 19)

THE IMAGE ITSELF
Every now and then I labor on an image that rejects my plans for it and insists I allow it to shape itself. "Flame and Flower" represents one of those instances. The abstract representation of fire moving over flowers piled up in a partial pyramid shape is a visual metaphor for self-defeating divisiveness. It can come in various forms, such as: violent conflict resolution versus nonviolent conflict resolution, love versus hate, or co-existence versus... well, not exactly a whole lot of choices there.

People who don't necessarily subscribe to one concept or the other find themselves caught in the middle of unsettling friction. Like U.S. government employees suffering from the current government shutdown, many children gone before their time were casualties of different kinds of wars, some inside the heads of deranged individuals and some on polit...

I was born and raised in the southeastern United States, then spent many years, while pursuing my education and serving in the U.S. Air Force, traveling around America and the world. Much of story is told in recent book releases like Greeting Flannery OConnor at the Back Door of My Mind and Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah. Artwork by me is featured on the cover of both books. My last 4 public exhibits were at the Savannah/Hilton Head Airport Art Gallery in Savannah, Georgia, USA, and during a cultural arts event in the historic Lafayette Square in the same city. I am currently completing an artbook project on different challenge which humanity has been facing in the 2020s, with text contributions from writers around the world. My...