Cross Bone

Cross Bone

25'' x 16''

A cross traverses the foreground; its vertical element the geometrically simplified form of a bone with a wiggly, cherry bearing vine its medulla, its crossbar robed with multi-color, screw-on, tube-like, sleeves. The cross divides the picture into quadrants. In the two top sections a motif of white calligraphic forms looks like unknown writing on an indigo field or sky. Said writing is an illusion for it is illegible. Apples float upward into a yellow sky from a cobalt blue ground with white polka dots in the lower left quadrant. Across mud brown and dark green field cut by the right angle of a rectilinear ditch or canal crawls a spineless creature whose three extremities extend like ribbons to the horizon and disappear behind the bone and border. A mechanical eye or snout protrudes from the upper body. Red and white stripes and festively waving little streamers adorn this character whose obvious intention to advance seems simultaneously comic, noble, obdurate, and pathetic.