Jaclyn Conley Canada, b. 1979
The Gloomy Day, 2023
oil on linen
182.9 x 152.4 cm
72 x 60 in
72 x 60 in
The Five Seasons “History never repeats itself, but the Kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends.” Mark Twain...
The Five Seasons
“History never repeats itself, but the Kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends.” Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner, 1874.
In my paintings the photograph source becomes a space between reality and imagination with overlaps of past and present. In this set of five paintings characters of the American counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s inhabit Bruegel’s landscapes illustrating the passing of time as seasons. In both worlds individuals strive to organize themselves and to coexist within a set of ideals all under the dominating whims of greater natures. The figures, sometimes dwarfed by their surroundings and other times stretching the scale of their influence reflect our own uncertainty of our human force onto, and as part of, our landscape.
source images
Photo by Peter Simon captioned: “Communards cavorting naked in the snow, Tree Frog Farm commune”, 1970.
Photo by Peter Simon captioned: “Elliot, Catherine and David in the beaver pond, Vermont, June 1971.”
Painting 'The Gloomy Day' by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, oil on wood, 1565.
“History never repeats itself, but the Kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends.” Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner, 1874.
In my paintings the photograph source becomes a space between reality and imagination with overlaps of past and present. In this set of five paintings characters of the American counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s inhabit Bruegel’s landscapes illustrating the passing of time as seasons. In both worlds individuals strive to organize themselves and to coexist within a set of ideals all under the dominating whims of greater natures. The figures, sometimes dwarfed by their surroundings and other times stretching the scale of their influence reflect our own uncertainty of our human force onto, and as part of, our landscape.
source images
Photo by Peter Simon captioned: “Communards cavorting naked in the snow, Tree Frog Farm commune”, 1970.
Photo by Peter Simon captioned: “Elliot, Catherine and David in the beaver pond, Vermont, June 1971.”
Painting 'The Gloomy Day' by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, oil on wood, 1565.