A new world is opened, a world that sings in the rhythmic sing–song of childhood,a world in which the ripples of imagination stretch far out to merge with thequiet waters of a deeper understanding of life.
The work represents a small portion of adults –a most fortunate portion-whose early memories stayed with them, and whose closeness to the feelings, theneeds, the bewilderment, delight and humor of childhood has never left them.Too many adults have forgotten the feeling of being a child. “…Elsewhere” has somehow in the midstof the pressures of maturity, retained an understanding of what it is thatpenetrates and curls up cozily within a persons imagination.
There is always in life, even in the lives of the very young, somesituations of stress some predicaments that lead to bewilderment and anxiety.The work mirrors these predicaments; it develops from the basic anxieties andneeds that have become more complex as life has progressed. The viewer has toaccept the lusty, gusty world of suspense and fright, of gobbling up (and beinggobbled), of snooping and being very nearly done-in, of outwitting evil byquick thinking and considerable ingenuity.
Each painting by its own account and perception of characters andsituations, offers something dreamlike to the viewer. The colors and compositionsmost delightfully adds a new dimension to the telling of the stories, itsupplies a wealth of detail in rich colors as well as a quiet humor the viewerwill happily discover.
“…Elsewhere” is a series bursting of many delights, planned upon the knowledge of whatpeople love and of the changeless popularity of the old timeworn stories itpresents. The viewer can dimly recall the age of three or four when someonetold them their first story; I believe that the story was a gift made expresslyfor me, a thing of magic the like of which I had never dreamed.
