back ... next ... Gatekeeper © 1982 Tom
Ferguson ... oil/c. about 30 x 26" Still own it.
This
is an extension of my collaboration works, showing that there
is often cross-fertilization among these "periods".
I gave spouse Cyndia Hunnicutt a grid, asking her to put words
in selected rectangles. I put words in corresponding rectangles
in another grid, then I put them together for the painting. Hers
are red. I recall now a trip to New York where I saw Ed Kienholz... or Ruska, somebody at Andre Emmerich
who used words, reinforcing this direction.