Tower And Toast

Williamsburg, VA - United States

Hi, Konnie! Wow! I love this one, and lots of your work, Konnie! Really surrealistic (nicely so!) here! Toast and the Tower! Where are all the viewers and comments that I think this deserves? Nice employment of the diagonal square linesshapes and the seemingly solid-color hues on the fade-away ground level versus such fine subtle fading from horizon's light into darker blue sky. How successfully "placed" there, the "other" tower, spot-lighted by the light part of sky. My eyes werestill are, drawn right back to it, past the almost impertinent interruption of the roughly 3/4ths of straight-lined rectangularity. But then, coming back I begin to notice the buildings and streets from there to here and they all are very un-Parisienne -- reminding me of "quanset huts!" and railroad box cars! And the "toast"-- sliced loves of "American-like" shape, and still rowed up as if just now machine-cut, pea-green (yuck!) bread ("What's the best thing since sliced . . .?"). It's militarily lined up with the rest of the ground level. BUT especially noticeable in the obtrusive "gross" foreground, hey, one leg of this uninteresting tower stands bridging two of the bases, and only then after that do I begin taking more notice of the blatant, in-my-face foreground: this monstrous tower and the surroundings, well, all of it! Entirely deserted of any "humanity." The tower is absolutely empty -- you can see the city right through the windows! And it's all plain! No decorative wrought iron designs! The only curves visible in the painting: the toast tops, and the similarly shaped opening between the tower's bottom-level legs that expose a bit of a funny little bread-shaped structure. It's orange, the brightest touch of color in the painting served to bounce me back to the dingier orange of the roof top. Oh, my goodness! This Tower and the toast are on a (flat) roof top! It appears to end behind the tower leg! The rest of what we see is a level below it! And what appear to me to become traditional roof-top sky light windows, morphing thus where the tower's leg partially rests on one. Thanks a pocket full of rainbows, Konnie. Have a great weekent and keep painting. Peace, etc., Bruce