Bed and Bedroom
The bed and bedroom first appeared in my art--in drawings--in 1999, if not a year earlier when I met my husband, Cahir, shown sleeping in the first painting below. (It was painted in 2001 and then reworked in 2007.) Regarding the painting in red, blue, and green, below, the red form is simultaneously a landscape, a shelter (a bedroom), and a blanket (as if the couple are in bed --with the figure on the right reaching up and holding the cloth).
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The bed and bedroom appear again in four of my recent paintings from 2015-16, though they have morphed somewhat, and they appear as parts of larger expressions. In these paintings, the bed and bedroom represent the present and the place in which I feel most safe. This is most obvious in my 2016 painting "The Brightest Door That Ever Opened," shown below with a couple of details. The bedroom doubles as the head of the symbolic figure of myself. The figure on the right represents my husband.
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