








Pastry Ships
Many years ago I found a photo, in a ‘women’s’ magazine, of some parallelogrammatic :) pastries, and immediately saw a formation of strange cartoony ships. The photo lay buried in a stack of magazine tears where I recently unearthed it and was inspired to create this composite....
Other than their common setting on the open ocean, the sea stories in the left and right panels of this diptych may, or may not, be connected (it’s up to you).
The left panel portrays a woman, apparently from antiquity, alone in a small boat. She appears to be searching for something, and is turned away from the scene in the right panel where four improbable ‘pastry ships’ have chanced upon, and dispatched, some unlucky prey, seemingly without effort. They appear to have suffered no damage. Only the wisps of smoke from their straw canons betray the action.
I personally find these hallucinatorily cartoonish and demonic pranksters to have a disquieting aspect linked to my early childhood experiences watching ‘Hollywood short cartoons’ (intended for adult audiences) in darkened theatres. Maybe you can relate to the way those theatrical animated gems inspire the love I have for them. I see the right panel as one frame from an imagined cartoon.
Questions remain about this darkly humorous work that I can’t answer.... and that’s not unusual.
Many years ago I found a photo, in a ‘women’s’ magazine, of some parallelogrammatic :) pastries, and immediately saw a formation of strange cartoony ships. The photo lay buried in a stack of magazine tears where I recently unearthed it and was inspired to create this composite....
Other than their common setting on the open ocean, the sea stories in the left and right panels of this diptych may, or may not, be connected (it’s up to you).
The left panel portrays a woman, apparently from antiquity, alone in a small boat. She appears to be searching for something, and is turned away from the scene in the right panel where four improbable ‘pastry ships’ have chanced upon, and dispatched, some unlucky prey, seemingly without effort. They appear to have suffered no damage. Only the wisps of smoke from their straw canons betray the action.
I personally find these hallucinatorily cartoonish and demonic pranksters to have a disquieting aspect linked to my early childhood experiences watching ‘Hollywood short cartoons’ (intended for adult audiences) in darkened theatres. Maybe you can relate to the way those theatrical animated gems inspire the love I have for them. I see the right panel as one frame from an imagined cartoon.
Questions remain about this darkly humorous work that I can’t answer.... and that’s not unusual.
Many years ago I found a photo, in a ‘women’s’ magazine, of some parallelogrammatic :) pastries, and immediately saw a formation of strange cartoony ships. The photo lay buried in a stack of magazine tears where I recently unearthed it and was inspired to create this composite....
Other than their common setting on the open ocean, the sea stories in the left and right panels of this diptych may, or may not, be connected (it’s up to you).
The left panel portrays a woman, apparently from antiquity, alone in a small boat. She appears to be searching for something, and is turned away from the scene in the right panel where four improbable ‘pastry ships’ have chanced upon, and dispatched, some unlucky prey, seemingly without effort. They appear to have suffered no damage. Only the wisps of smoke from their straw canons betray the action.
I personally find these hallucinatorily cartoonish and demonic pranksters to have a disquieting aspect linked to my early childhood experiences watching ‘Hollywood short cartoons’ (intended for adult audiences) in darkened theatres. Maybe you can relate to the way those theatrical animated gems inspire the love I have for them. I see the right panel as one frame from an imagined cartoon.
Questions remain about this darkly humorous work that I can’t answer.... and that’s not unusual.