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What is the subject of this painting? by Andrew Boobier Trees - what are they, whitebeam, elm, sessile oak? They draw the middle ground to the scrubbed rocks and twiggy shrubs above the river. The river is a knife wound dragging the viewer's eye along the oblique slate diagonal. The slatted one-storied farmhouse is partially obscured by the trees. Chimney smoke bleeds into the low rain-bearing clouds, and the adjacent aluminium barn swells like a tumour of light. It splits the sheep fields from the blue foothills that rise to needled peaks the colour of dried blood. The piece is called Flight, so I'm looking for a sign: birds, an aeroplane, a young man running scared with a smoking gun... I stare intently at the surface craquelure and impasto until I've narrowed it down to the tiny face of a woman at a window staring directly out from the canvas. What kind of expression is that? Who the hell does she think she is looking at? © Andrew Boobier « Home | Contributor Notes » Please comment on this poem. |
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