What Shadows Can Foretell

摘要

The artist's studio I share with several like-minded amateur painters boasts a contingent of smaller occupants as well. Dozens of groundhogs—odd little creatures, featureless, curious, like reddish, fuzzy, scurrying pillows—live up and down the river road, at least two under the foundations of every busy warehouse. My studio mates and I were going to do a series of sentimental woodchuck paintings—like the famous blue dogs— but realized there was no way to communicate that the shape was a woodchuck and not some furry, amorphous Shmoo. The creature is already too droll to be joked about successfully.