Your Glove Story reflects your strong sense of something universal in shared American heritage and iconography. I put it loosely, but definitely, in the same category with your depictions of bygone times through capturing buildings and places before they pass into history. The baseball glove still endures as strongly as ever but one can’t separate the modern use of it from it’s strong and vibrant history as well as it’s ability to elicit memories and emotions on a very personal level. You painted the symbol of your own personal experience but you also painted everyone else’s too. This is something all artists strive to do, whether they’re aware of it or not.
The images of the glove and baseball meaning is universal and needs nothing more to explain it. Words are extraneous, unnecessary, even faulty and unable to express the myriad of moments and feelings one gets from the rush of images and the accompanying emotions elicited. Especially childhood memories.
Whenever the paintings ‘paint themselves’ you’ll find it’s because they have universal significance. A shared meaning on a higher emotional level. Those emotions run the gamut of all emotions, but in this case the emotions are specific to an experience of deeply shared joy.
The beautiful intricate depiction of the glove and ball stand out in contrast to the undefined and formless background which strips the painting of anything extraneous to the emphasis on the central issue of your intent.
You did a great job, on all levels.
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