In the summer of 2010 I started a piece where my main focus was trying to paint storm clouds, and I ended up with basically four trees in the foreground…two big, and two small. It was more of a practice in paint, and I had no idea what to call it. For anyone who knows my work, each original either begins with, finds, or ends up with an attached song lyric, piece of poetry, or story which uses humor, nostalgia, environmental concerns, legend, or truth to connect the artist and the viewer and make that piece of art more personal. Every story is based on the truth of why it was created. I hung this original in my tent for 3 art festivals with a big sign that said “I need a name- and the namer wins a free giclee print of choice”. It was absolutely wonderful to see dozens of people stand and stare at this piece of art for many minutes, or leave my tent and come back later after mulling over what to call it. Dozens of suggestions later, my family voted on it’s new name….”I Told You We’d Get Caught”. Thank you to Jessica Poors of Hancock, Maine for coming up with a great caption!
For me, her title takes me back to my youth, when my brother and I would take an elaborate detour across the road and play hide and seek up on the 3rd floor hayloft of a neighboring farm…which was strictly forbidden, and undoubtedly dangerous. We got away with it dozens of times until one day the farmer saw my brother’s red jacket from ACROSS THE ROAD through a small hole in the barn roof, and came over and hollered up at us that we could get killed falling from that loft. We hid like mice but he knew we were there. My younger brother turned to me afterward and said ” I told you we’d get caught! Now he’s going to tell mom!”
I Told You We’d Get Caught
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In the summer of 2010 I started a piece where my main focus was trying to paint storm clouds, and I ended up with basically four trees in the foreground…two big, and two small. It was more of a practice in paint, and I had no idea what to call it. For anyone who knows my work, each original either begins with, finds, or ends up with an attached song lyric, piece of poetry, or story which uses humor, nostalgia, environmental concerns, legend, or truth to connect the artist and the viewer and make that piece of art more personal. Every story is based on the truth of why it was created. I hung this original in my tent for 3 art festivals with a big sign that said “I need a name- and the namer wins a free giclee print of choice”. It was absolutely wonderful to see dozens of people stand and stare at this piece of art for many minutes, or leave my tent and come back later after mulling over what to call it. Dozens of suggestions later, my family voted on it’s new name….”I Told You We’d Get Caught”. Thank you to Jessica Poors of Hancock, Maine for coming up with a great caption!
For me, her title takes me back to my youth, when my brother and I would take an elaborate detour across the road and play hide and seek up on the 3rd floor hayloft of a neighboring farm…which was strictly forbidden, and undoubtedly dangerous. We got away with it dozens of times until one day the farmer saw my brother’s red jacket from ACROSS THE ROAD through a small hole in the barn roof, and came over and hollered up at us that we could get killed falling from that loft. We hid like mice but he knew we were there. My younger brother turned to me afterward and said ” I told you we’d get caught! Now he’s going to tell mom!”
But he didn’t.
This is for all of you who never got caught.