Black Onyx

Black Onyx (detail) resembles a warm-blooded aquatic vertebrate of leather with a fiberous tail. The rusted wire that surrounds, floats the attachment and provides support by penetrating the face of the canvas. Black paint was drizzled (Pollock fashion : )) and poured upon the canvas. The canvas when viewed in its entirety seems to create planetary space of dimension and time...or deep sea environments, below the thermocline, where light does not penetrate.

Word VII

Harkrader has created another restful composition within Word VII. A window looking into or out of the sky floats in the lower left as two fibers gently horizon their way across the horizontal land. An excavation of rock lies just below. In the center canvas resides a small vertical opening that exposes text, like some ancient word exposed by an archaeological excavation. A vein of granite or marble resides in the top left and another small window to the world just right. (30"x30" / mixed media) Available!

In Other Words...

In other words, there exist within this series, another 'Word', a canvas that has little to say and says it well. But that happens to be the point in the case. When there is less action and language within the composition, there will be more room to rest. This Harkrader canvas has a great deal of room to rest ones soul, thoughts, and eye. The top of the canvas has an aqua like window of color and composition in which one may look into or out of, as the case may be. Below this composition lies lots of room to rest within the neutral landscape which is intersected by two lazy horizontal fibers that may convey a horizon. Floating above the fiber resides this fossil-like shape in earthy color and an aqua-earth composition intersecting the fibers to the right. (24x30) Available