Title: untitled
Titles often come later to me, much time often passes before I have a word or a phrase that reflects well on a painting, something that I think hits the nail on the head as was the case with this painting. I was thinking of calling it “the watchtower” but then I remembered Jehovah’s Witnesses standing on street corners in Montreal giving away a magazine called the watchtower and I didn’t really like or want that direct association to religion but then excitedly I remembered the Bob Dylan song (made famous by Jimi Hendrix) called “all along the watchtower” which I know, has Old Testament references but is poetically ambiguous in a way only Dylan can do … and then I thought ok, how about “under the watchtower”? I like that, because, as someone who appreciates ambiguity or open endedness, it suggests, to me anyway, a place of quiet observation, where life unfolds in the shadow of something or someone watching. To my eye, it evokes a subtle tension between the seen and the unseen, bet...
