A black marble figure appears in some of my abstract paintings about places as in this one about the Tanarello Torrent of the Alto Tanaro Valley, Italy, that divides Liguria from Piedmont.

I imagine it as an androgynous witness and although made of stone, it is alive. It looks out of the picture asking “What do you see?” and “What is this about?”

To me, it is the figure of a magician; a catalyst that links the forces of nature with ourselves and our ancestors.

The eye of the figure is suggested by a circle that could be the light around an eclipse of the sun or the moon. The figure is especially pertinent in my paintings inspired by neolithic monuments which are thought by some to have been built as celestial clocks and ritual sites.

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