“I would prefer to claim with Pissarro that the art of painting, for those who know how to use their eyes, resides in an apple on the corner of a table. What could be more stupid than painting an apple! And yet to make of such a simple fact something that will be elevated to beauty, painting will have to engage all of its means; it will have to be solid, flexible, and rich in substance, suggestive too, so suggestive that it will have the luxury, the grandeur of revealing man’s presence in the apple — the apple surrounded with an atmosphere of thought.” From “To Myself,” Odilon Redon
In the Shade of Time was painted over a period of several months, tracking the gradual changes undergone by a red onion . The close, continuous observation and interaction built up a deep relationship to this organic object, in whose changing shape I began to see symbols and shadows of my own experiences and fears. A personal twist on the medieval tradition of imbuing objects with symbolic significance.
