Joseph A. Miller Art

Inspired by the poetic overlapping figure shapes of the 19th Century French painter, William Bouguereau, “Drone” depicts two young girls who have found, to their delight, what might be real, or might be a toy. Either way, it is a potent symbol of destruction and contemporary warfare. But it is also a mechanism of flight; so it is both deadly and romantic. I have done my best to contrast and juxtapose the image of the drone with the images of the girls. Now, in pretend flight only, it glides between the branches of a Quaking Aspen tree; that also provides shadows of cover for the two figures lost in their own enchantment.

Inspired by the power of a contemporary hurricane, and the subject matter of the 19th Century American Painter, Winslow Homer, “After” depicts four female figures who have come out to wade at the water’s edge after a storm. Their clothing blows in the wind and reflects the colored light of a changing sky. Gestures of uneasy equilibrium, they ponder the state of things; what’s left, and what’s left unsaid.

With her powers of clairvoyance, “Cassandra” runs among the shadows under the fading evening light that she cannot see. No one believes her stories, so she entertains herself; gliding, dancing, running through her back yard. A toy airplane in her hand, flying down fast towards the earth; only Cassandra knows; her dream will come to be.

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