Re-located As Contemplative Icons

Text by James Hillman

An exhibition at the Nathan Cummings Foundation
December 22, 1997 through June 19, 1998

"Landscape painting not only locate things; it also relocates them. It gives to things-concrete or abstract as they may be-somewhere else to be...

...Another place means another life-a sceond life. Thus things (including experiences of things) are not merely represented or remembered in painting; 'they survive' there in the sense of living on, literally living over their first proper life."

This exhibition consists of paintings and text exerpted from the book Dream Animals. This collaborative effort is intended to help the viewer look at animals again and see their living forms so that we respond to them with the gift of our intelligence. By observing animals we are often able to reflect on our perceptions fo ourselves through a lens that is less threatening and often empathic and accepting.

Big Sur, 21 1/2" x 22", mixed media on board

• Checklist of Paintings

  Accompanying wall texts by James Hillman excerpted from the collaborative book by artist and author, Dream Animals .