Adelies (2008).
68” x 80”. Oil and
acrylic on wood.
Image courtesy
of the artist and
Sperone
Westwater.
companions being three small robots, he
confronts the vastness of space. This story
really appealed to me and articulated something I had been aware of for as long as I can
remember. We as a civilization were headed
towards the point of no return with not only
biodiversity but also the idea that the earth
was even sustainable for humans at all. In
1992, as I was finishing my first epic painting,
Evolution (8’ × 24”), I decided my next body of
work would try to imagine what happened
to these domes in the narrative of the movie,
assuming that Freeman Lowell would die
one day—each image would represent a zoo
enclosure of ecosystem on Earth that had run
amuck. The animals were acting in bizarre
and decidedly un-natural ways. The other
challenge was to make the images a type of
hybrid-interior, landscape space-scape with
a lot of tension coming from the technology and F