Portfolio > Lanterns/Remembrance

These paintings were inspired by an annual lantern ceremony held at Forest Hills Cemetery, near my home. It is based on a traditional Buddhist ceremony of remembrance. In a ritual of remembrance, visitors assemble paper lanterns and set them afloat, candle-lit from within, on the surface of Lake Hibiscus at dusk. These paintings are studies of the light filtered by the tissue shade of the lanterns, in the context of the dark lake. They explore light and dark, reflection, as well as the dynamic of a collection of forms versus the individual form. They are also a meditation on loss, especially loss associated with the Iraq war.

Painting, lanterns of remembrance on water, flag imagery, war
mixed media
24 x 24"
$1000
Mixed media painting, lanterns of remembrance, cost of war
Mixed Media
12 x 12"
2012
$400
Mixed media painting, casualties of war, lanterns of remembrance
mixed media
12 x 12"
$400
Lantern painting, light and dark
Mixed media
6 x 6"
$100
Mixed media painting, lantern, light and dark
Mixed media
6 x 6 in.
$100
Lanterns on water, children lost in Iraq
Mixed media
30 x 24"
$1200
Painting of Light and Darkness, lanterns on water
acrylic
12 x 12"
$400
Lanterns on water, mixed media, flag
acrylic, mixed media
36x48"
2010
$2600
Mixed media, collage, lanterns floating on water
acrylic, mixed media
12x12"
2011
$400
The painting is inspired by a Buddhist lantern ceremony of remembrance
acrylic, mixed media
10 x 20"
2011
$600
Lighted paper lanterns float on the surface of the lake
acrylic
12 x 24"
2013
$850