as if I were on vacation here
and feeling indulgent
towards the human race; its way of
living in cities and
tearing us so the traffic has to be
re-routed around a collapsing white mesh barrier
as on this intersection here."
- excerpt from "Suddenly the City" by Linda Bamber in Metropolitan Tang, published by David R. Godine, Jaffrey, New Hampshire: 2008
These are the colors of modernity, bright and unexpected. What I see in this painting is transportation mapping. Like the internet, transportation analysis was born of military necessity. During WWII, it was vitally important for intelligence agencies to map the movements of vehicles by the other side. Embodied in this image are new ways of envisioning information.
Dennis Ashbaugh is an American painter who is preoccupied with all things scientific. Computers, DNA,and even science fiction are like progrms running in the back of his mind.
Image - Dennis Ashbaugh - Grape Pumpkins,2002, acrylic on canvas, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC.
2 comments:
It’s also musical, isn’t it? I love this golden yellow that lightens everything.
Tania, I like where your imagination takes you. I, too, love the brightness of the yellow.
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