Freedom in the Web It would probably not be right for me to admit my own dissatisfaction with the title I have chosen, yet I maintain it despite the suggestion that it may have something to do with "the Internet." It does not. I keep it for a different reason having more to do with two seemingly unrelated subject matters: infinity and the human condition. This painting is a "picture" of the infinite as shown by the background of stars. We can "easily" imagine the vastness BEYOND even those distant stars. There are sweeping expanses of color in the foreground -- these symbolizing what one might see if viewing the surface of a the human skin with an extremely powerful microscope. To paint this idea (of a bidirectional infinity) was for the most part due to seeing a book titled "Powers of 10." The book has page after page of aerial photographs taken at distances 10 times that of previously taken photographs. The first image is that of the surface of a man's hand as he lies on a beach towel with his girl on top of his roof-top building apartment in the middle of a huge city (in the middle of what LATER is shown to be a vast universe of galaxies and empty space). The title "Freedom in the Web" was chosen to suggest man's "positive position" in the web of space and time (as opposed to a negative one (which the "web" could also be considered to cause or adversely influence)). The "web" is meant to be symbolic of our struggle in the universe. Struggle is by definition both difficult and rewarding -- We can be free in the confines of it. Back