These paintings and drawings are inspired by the prehistoric architecture of neolithic stone ruins found in northern Europe. They are called "hunebedden", graves of the ancient ones. I visited twenty-five of these sites in the Drente area of Holland. They suggest the beginning of abstract thought: contemplation of death, of time passsing, of the universe and humankind's place in it. I see a relationslhip between man's observation of stellar patterns in the night sky and the positioning of huge rocks at special (sacred) places for burial of the dead.
Site Plan Study
1986
pastel and conté crayon on paper
17"x24"
Hunebedden Plan: Blue Field
1986
oil on canvas
50"x66"
Hunebedden Plan
1986
oil on paper
20.5"x29"
Hunebedden Study
1986
oil on canvas
39"x31"
Large Hunebedden I
1986
oil on canvas
70"x80"
Study for Floating Hunebedden,
1986
oil on paper,
18"x24"
Early Architectural Form No.1
1986
oil stick on paper
29"x40"
Early Architectural Form No.2
1986
oil stick on paper
29"x40"
Hunebedden Study (for Touch Point)
1986
oil stick and conté crayon on paper
14"x19"
Touch Point
1986
oil on canvas
63"x109"
Division: Light/Darkness,
1987
oil on canvas
48"x72" (diptych)
Early Geometry
1987
oil on canvas
68"x58"
Skywatch,
1987
oil on canvas
64"x48"
Creation
1987
oil on canvas
60"x68"
Flower Moon (Apotheosis of the Hunebedden)
1987
oil on canvas
68"x60"
Cosmos
1987
oil on canvas
38"x38"
Untitled No.1
1986
oil on paper
29"x40"
Untitled No. 2
1986
oil on paper
29"x40"
Smooth White Form
1986
oil on paper
29"x20.5"
Bone Study No.2
1986
oil on paper
29"x20.5"
Hunebedden Series: Site Plan
1986
oil on paper
40"x29"
Untitled No.7
1986
oil on paper
29"x40"
Hunebedden Plan: Red Field,
1986
oil on canvas
48"x68"
Stone, Bones at Midnight
1987
pastel, charcoal on paper
22"x30"