Lonely Brain

Lonely Brain, 60" x 48", 152 cm x 121 cm, urethane and acrylic binders, pigments in dispersal water,  dry iridescent pigments and resin on panel.

Lonely Brain has multiple paint layers that are suspended between layers of clear resin. The clear resin layers allow light to get behind translucent paint glazes that make the painting glow with an inner light. The suspended paint layers also create a 3 - D sense of depth as the viewer's point of view shifts.

As in most of my paintings Lonely Brain was titled after the painting was finished. This allows conceptual flexibility during the painting process.

The title refers to the fact of our brains being encased in a bone container that relys on the senses to interpret exterior phenomenon. In effect, we project what we think we know which is checked by what is out there. It's a top down process. Not a bottom up one.