Jaclyn Conley Canada, b. 1979
The Hunters, 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: “Fritz Hewitt, Catherine Blinder and Marcia Braun walking through the snow with dogs, Tree Frog Farm Commune, 1970.”
Photo by Peter Simon captioned: “Commune dogs on a snowy road (double exposure), Tree Frog Farm Commune, 1970.”
Painting 'Hunters in the Snow (The Return of the Hunters)' by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, oil on panel, 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: “Fritz Hewitt, Catherine Blinder and Marcia Braun walking through the snow with dogs, Tree Frog Farm Commune, 1970.”
Photo by Peter Simon captioned: “Commune dogs on a snowy road (double exposure), Tree Frog Farm Commune, 1970.”
Painting 'Hunters in the Snow (The Return of the Hunters)' by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, oil on panel, 1565.