Auction #2: Dream and Memory, Heaven and Hell

“The War Between Heaven and Hell Wallpaper” begins with a vision, an unanticipated sight. Larger than that single vision, though, the overarching narrative weaves between different forms of storyline (that which is imagined, dreamed, and remembered) as the author attempts to make sense of the original image. In “Vision Imagination Dream and Memory” I tried to not only to capture Ford’s initial vision of heaven and hell battling in the wallpaper design, but also to lay focus on the creator of that vision, how such creations are a product of a human mind interacting with the world. In that sense, the focus of the painting becomes the author himself, not Ford, but an abstracted “everyman” as the search to make meaning of our world is a universal desire. On top of the acrylic and collage painting sit “magnetic poetry” style words. These suggest not just that words are intrinsic to the stories that Ford creates about his initial image, but also that our many ways of interpreting the world rely mainly on juxtaposition, and how the mind wanders from one idea to the next in a way quite similar to how a poem is put together from pre-printed worded magnets.

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