Fecund Tondi
fecund; ripe (adj.)
tondo; painting in the round, from ‘rotundo’
tondi (plural)
Tondi, or paintings-in-the-round were popular in the 16th century, about the time that Galileo (1564-1642) recognized that the earth too, was round. I continue a history of the tondo in these works by exploring a ripe, or fecund world of organic forms. Drawing upon the parallel traditions of Dutch still life painting and botanical illustration, I have reinterpreted those genres by inserting my collection of toys and specimens. The result is an odd kind of quasi-scientific observation in which the viewers’ internal microscope makes her capable of reading my un-natural history.
The obsession with detail is rendered in inks and paint on corian. The technique pays homage to the craft of china painting, but replaces natural porcelain with a derivative of the petrochemical industry normally associated with counter tops. The material choices, then, reflect my choice of subject--they play with the categories of history.
tondo; painting in the round, from ‘rotundo’
tondi (plural)
Tondi, or paintings-in-the-round were popular in the 16th century, about the time that Galileo (1564-1642) recognized that the earth too, was round. I continue a history of the tondo in these works by exploring a ripe, or fecund world of organic forms. Drawing upon the parallel traditions of Dutch still life painting and botanical illustration, I have reinterpreted those genres by inserting my collection of toys and specimens. The result is an odd kind of quasi-scientific observation in which the viewers’ internal microscope makes her capable of reading my un-natural history.
The obsession with detail is rendered in inks and paint on corian. The technique pays homage to the craft of china painting, but replaces natural porcelain with a derivative of the petrochemical industry normally associated with counter tops. The material choices, then, reflect my choice of subject--they play with the categories of history.
