Out of Place and Out of Time, Oil, 30" x 24"

Wow, this one was different and cool. We'd been travelling on foot around London with a group of our high school students; our tour was so rushed, it was heartbreaking. As we walked away from the Buckingham area, we passed this statue on Trinity Square. Trinity Place? At any rate, it was a mystery where this figure was, but it was among my photos and begged to be painted, peeking out from among columns and behind screens of trees and hedges. I did indeed paint it, and it had a displaced, surreal quality that I liked. (My daughter thought that it looked like a burgler lurking by a window). I never could remember where or what it was, until a friend located the place and the statue on Google Earth. It turns out it's a figure named "Commerce", installed in an alcove on the western side of Trinity Square. Its mate, a statue named "Navigation", I think, stands on the opposite side of this magnificent building. Hoo boy, what a strange take on a monolithic creation. My version was more intimate and mysterious than the actual thing appeared in real life, so there you have it.

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