This weeks piece is an homage to Gustave Klimt, and Austrian painted and one of my favorite artists. These characters come from some of his most prominent works, namely The Three Stages of Women and The Women Friends. I was interested in displacing these characters from their original environment and creating a new place for them on the wooden panel where they could have a new dialogue. I have been playing with the idea of presenting a narrative, or scenes from multiple points in time, on one surface. This is easily achieved with film or music, but chronology, in my opinion, is difficult on a two-dimensional surface. The collage style lends to this idea because if allow you to overlap parts and explore different subjects' relationships with one another.
The story of Barbary Allen is illustrated in this circular motif. Towards the left side of the panel stands cruel and composed Barbary. In the middle is Young William Green, weeping over his rejection and eventual death. Laying on the bottom is Barbary again --this time in her death bed caring the burden of William Green's death from heartbreak.
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