The Door to Spring

The Door to Spring
Mixed Media
26" x 36"
$2100
Available
framed

Painted in New Haven, Connecticut. A meditation on Wooster Square Park, a 6-acre park in the old Italian neighborhood. The park is encircled by a black cast-iron fence, has straight, imperfect star-design paths, a bewildering diversity of trees. This tree was a youngish one, near the site of the Columbus statue, since removed. Though small, the park is a potent focus of natural effects: it floods, has some winters huge snowfalls, is encircled by Yoshino cherry trees that explode with blossom in Spring. The park creates silence, and the contrasts of dark and light are stark, and it seemed to me that through the dark door of black winter Spring might be coming on through. This is night and silence seen through a dream.