These oil and acrylic paintings are from my Metroperplexed gallery show at Fringe Art Gallery in Fort Worth, Texas circa May 2013. They examine different architectural wonders of the Dallas/Fort Worth area with distinctive skylines in a de-abstracted collision of elements of buildings with construction sites mixed. Jointly, these elements evoke the feeling of driving fast on the “Metroplex” spaghetti highways (nickname for the Dallas/Fort Worth area). I also wanted to explore the idea that a city or urban area is never finished and constantly changes. Does a city’s history get destroyed by new construction? Some of the ideas that Umberto Eco wrote about in Name on the Rose, which are summed up in the final Latin verse of the book…
“Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus” [it; la] (transl. ”about a rose that used to exist, all we can learn is its empty name”).
Name on the Rose, Umberto Eco
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