edwardpovey
Things We Can Count On
Edward Povey
2008
Oil on linen
24 x 32 inches
Signed and dated lower right
The basis for this painting is emotional, and its source lies beyond sight in the unconscious.
The man is effeminate and tense, perched on the very edge of a step, and seemingly on the edge of tears. The child could be the child that he once was - painted extremely sensitively: dappled and pale green, the boy is in a rage, storming up the steps, observed by the man that he will become.
Is it that the man can see the natural outcome of the rage which he felt as a child? That if the child were to have continued to express such anger, his path would have taken him inevitably up the tower and off the top, to his death, like the man visible through the window.
© Copyright Edward Povey 2009