Watercolour
and crayon
©2015
Charlene Brown
Two of my
paintings last year, Intersections of diametrically opposed disciplines and Multi-disciplinary Bridges, were allegories related to bridging C.P. Snow’s ‘gulf of mutual ignorance’
between the disciplines of the arts and sciences.
This third ‘bridging
allegory’ painting depicts an actual set of stacked and balanced stones, some
bridging the spaces between stacks – that appeared recently near where I live. As
the whole thing has been set up on an ‘island’ that only appears at low tide,
we have the added drama of the occasional, and mysterious, re-bridging of a gulf,
when any of the key components gets washed out.