The View from Pluto |
On a good day, you can feel a little warmth in your toes. The sun is a grain of rice at arm's length. The local stars are close neighbors in fact. We could chat over the backyard fence after putting the kids on the schoolbus in the morning.Charon paddles from horizon to horizon, bigger than I remember Luna being from Earth. There are so few molecules between me and him, I think that I can almost see them. Once I knew seasons and cycles, touches and smells. I knew the animals and plants, and they knew me. Would that I could again. Come see. |
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Artist’s Statement |
| My work is an expression of my personal pursuit of meaning through mythology, world religion and the pre-history of humankind. There I have found rich symbols of psychological depth, a visual vocabulary of subjective, non-linear, poetic aspects of human experience. These are not relics, but a living language in which our psyches still speak in dreams and imagination. My concern is to show their continuing importance for our sense of wholeness and self. Further, I want to suggest that the "real" world is less objective than our current understandings would allow.
I delight in painting impossible things with an earth-bound naturalism. When I was a boy, I admired the realistic depictions of ancient times and cultures in National Geographic Magazine, and greatly enjoyed science-fiction cover art. As a young man and artist, I was strongly influenced by the imagery of the Symbolists and Surrealists. I see my style as a merging of these disparate threads. Drawing is fundamental to my process. To believably illustrate my concepts, I do sketches and studies for various elements, and seek out photographic reference. Animals are frequently part of my images. They speak of the earth, spirit, power, our position in the natural world, as well as the more-than-human and the less-than-human in our own natures. In this work, I'm trying to point to the unseen, to create a sense of newness and mystery, to hint at deep experiences and encourage their exploration. |
Donations |
| If you appreciate the art seen on these pages, and you are able, please make a donation to help me meet expenses. All major credit cards, debit cards, bank transfers and PayPal payments are accepted. Transactions are secure. |
| All paintings and text on these pages, except the excerpts from The Kalevala, The Life of the Messenger of God, and The Homeric Hymns, are ©1998-2007 by William Fahey, and may not be reproduced without my written permission. If you wish to show any of my paintings on your website, you may, with these conditions: my name, William Fahey, must appear with it, and you must provide a link to this site. |
| Comments are welcome. Sorry for the inconvenience, but the mail address below is an image that you'll have to copy into your e-mail. Let's see if I can slowly get off of some of the spammer's lists.
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| First uploaded March 2, 1998.
Last updated March 25, 2007. |
