Taken literally, the word renaissance denotes a rebirth.
In certain Native American mythologies the red-tail hawk paints the world's
rebirth each
morning.
The circle composition ties the environments of sky, earth, and water
into a unified whole
while the tree arrests eye movement and its branches align themselves to
the major compass points.
The landscape is a remembrance of the view from my favorite haunt as a
teenager without the evidence of human habitation. The coloration is a reflection of the Italian Renaissance which gave us
perspectival space within an abstract two dimensional plane
and allowed the real to become surreal. |
