Thanks to John Archibald, for sharing here his homage to the Lord of the Forest. John writes this:
"I love Greenmen.
Such mysterious male energy. Must be those faces made only of leaves; that
image invites a kind of primal reaction from the viewer. Weird, but it catches at
you, as if reminding you of something you’d forgotten, long ago. Some of the medieval
ones actually have roots growing out of their mouths. There was a shop in the
gay neighborhood of Hillcrest in San Diego, called Column One, where over the
years I found a number of Greenmen, orginally in an unpainted beige plaster,
and have painted a number of them.
"I found as well a
number of Greek gods here and there, which I’ve also painted. In the ancient
world, practically all the statues were painted, with the larger, more
important ones being made of molded sheets of ivory and gold, with
semi-precious gems for eyes. They must have been amazing!"
No comments:
Post a Comment