Timory Dodge, The days are here, the nights will soon follow,
2010
oil on canvas,  213x365 cm

I worked as a visitor service representative at the Knoxville Museum of Art when they had their Tomory Dodge show up.  That was years ago, but I've been thinking about his work; it's effectiveness, the celebratory quality of his rainbowed color palette and brushstrokes.  This painting wasn't in that show but it sums up what I think about making beautiful things that express equilibrium.  Sometimes it happens and is greatly appreciated.  Lately, I'm seeing symmetry everywhere.  Its a new experience of looking; to find those things that are utterly balanced in the simplest of places.