The Process of Painting: Representing the Passing of Time in a Static Image

This painting entitled "Alpha & Omega" was completed over the course of a few months in 2015. Its about the movement of bodies through time and space and the transition from birth to death. I am playing with religious and mythological themes and iconography including the concept of resurrection and walking on water. The blurred motion of the dog's head transforms him into the Cerberus of french bulldogs watching over the river styx. My figure moves across the picture plane to tilt an amphora in some sort of unknown cleansing or ceremonial gesture that causes birds to take flight in response to the disturbance of the water. The patterns of the Roman sarcophagus form a birth canal suggesting that to emerge from the womb into life is to transition through a portal from the unknown that came before your existence into life and to the unknown that awaits ahead in death.
Alex Walker
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