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Summer, 1978, Nils. Egg tempera, oil,
encaustic, collage and wood putty on hardwood panel after a photograph from National
Geographic Magazine September 1977. Each square 5 1/4" x 9
1/4". The total size is 3' 6" x 6' 2".
In metric, each square is 13.5 cm x 23.5 cm. The total size
is 107 cm wide x 188 cm high.
This piece is 3 1/2 feet wide
and just over 6 feet tall (1 meter 7cm x 1 meter 88 cm high). Viewing the image on the internet can only give you a small taste
of the experience of standing in front of this piece. It is
a beautifully human life size blast of color, texture, and light.
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Out of the closet...
The summer of 1978: I had graduated from college and was just back from my
first trip to Europe. Curious about all those techniques I'd
seen on the museum walls and never learned in school, I decided
to experiment. Fascinated by a photograph from National
Geographic by photographer Erik Borg, and
armed with Ralph Meyer's 'Artist's Handbook of Materials and
Techniques', I set to work learning egg tempera, encaustic, and
oil. The
National Geographic photograph was cut up into 64 equally sized rectangular
squares. Then, enlarged on 64 equally sized squares of wood, I painted
each small piece of the photograph - separately. Each
square was done in a different technique, each one intended
as a separate painting, to stand alone or, of course, together. This was the
result.
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