PORTLANDS

Portland is a series of paintings made in response to a large industrial space located in the Toronto Portlands and built, for the most part with concrete. I not only was entranced by the quality of light and sound and the immense scale of the space but was also struck by the way in which a largely abandoned physical presence could come into a fullness of being as it moves into its later years. It spoke to something larger than its physical presence, huge though that is.