| My
brother once told me that the Television (or 'The Telly' as we call it
in England) is a "stealer of time". This is a sad painting that
also serves me a personal warning . On the wall behind the couple is a
painting I did titled 'Q' . I took
two of the characters from that painting and wanted to see what they would
be doing years later. So here they are. They occupy the same space as
each other, they exist in the same time and even sit upon the same couch
and yet they do not truly live together. They live vicariously through
the fabricated lives of those they watch on the television. He holds onto
his remote control in a dead mans grip. Her eyes are still open but her
mind closed years ago. The only living thing still linking them, still
bridging that vast space on the couch is.......their dog. It's painful
for me to admit, but the figure on the right was in many ways my mother.
I noticed that her eyes became lifeless as she gradually withdrew from
us all. Those once shining and kind eyes were slowely closing. She died
in March of 1999 and now she sees through my eyes. |
