Birds
'DREAM BUILDING' WAS CONCIEVED AND CREATED IN LOS ANGELES, INSPIRED BY THE THEME 'THE ART OF BUILDING' THAT FORMS THE ANNUAL 'SHOW AND TELL' EXHIBITION THAT IS HELD AT THE ZIMMER MUSEUM ON WILSHIRE BOULEVARD. ( www.zimmershowandtell.org ).
THE PAINTING USES THE METAPHOR OF THE 'NEST' BUILDING TO EVOKE THE POTENTIAL OF PURPOSE. INDIGINOUS TO CALIFORNIA, THE SCRUB JAY IS A BIRD THAT EMBODIES GREAT INDUSTRY IN CHARACTER AND EXPRESSION, THUS AN APT SYMBOL FOR ALL THOSE WHO ASPIRE TO LIVE A 'DREAM', NURTURED AND SUSTAINED BY THE COMPULSIVE URGE TO ATTAIN AND FULFILL POTENTIAL. SET AGAINST THE ICONIC HOLLYWOOD SIGN, THE PICTURE REFLECTS THE ALLERGORY OF NATURE AND ILLUSION. THE 'TIGER SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLY, ATTESTS TO THE TRANSFORMATIVE ARCHITECTURE OF THE NEST OF BLUE SCRUB JAY EGGS, HOLDING THE 'EXISTENTIAL' PARADOX PRESENTED BY BEING IN HOLLYWOOD, WHERE DREAMS ARE PERPUTUALLY MANIFESTED.......(OR OTHERWISE).