Portholes

Acrylic on Wood
6 x 6 x 1 in
1992

These small paintings were imagined portholes for Darwin’s fictive second voyage of the Beagle, 40 years after the first. During this Voyage, Captain Fitzroy and Darwin engage in a fight about organized religion which is so fierce, it results in a violent storm and the Beagle is shipwrecked. Captain Fitzroy is dispatched to an island called Heaven. Darwin is left stranded on another island with inexplicable creatures, a tribe of robots, that perpetually roam the island in search of what to search for, and the monstrous races. A discussion of who has the best evolutionary adaptations ensued.

Sea Shells

Butterfly Ecstatic

Blue Geometric

Butterfly Field

Seashells

Red Wave Curtains

Seed

Blue Hand

Sand Dollar

Butterfly Spectral

Butterfly Realistic

Water and Star

Turtle Shell

Flower Petals

Caterpillar

Tarantula