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eohippus all contents copyright 2007 max carmichael | why eohippus? bio contact | |
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arts portfolio: visual arts music writing events design | |
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visual arts: freeing the image | back next | |
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Context & Inspiration 1981-present By the time I opened the Terra Incognita loft in San Francisco, my pictures had completely stopped being just pictures of things. No more portraits, figure studies, landscapes, or historical renderings. From now on, the images would symbolize or communicate feelings, messages and stories. Anything I made was immediately put on display, to be shared and discussed with my roommates and the members of our larger community. As my subjects evolved from the pathos of bohemian life to natural ecosystems, I became aware of Native American rock art and the work of Oyvind Fahlstrom of Finland, whose incredibly dense symbolic drawings and paintings were like illustrated diagrammatic histories of imaginary worlds discovered under a microscope. |
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