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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.

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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