Paul McMillan

Interdisciplinary Stillife Paintings
 
"Shadows"
(third version)
Words and Music by Paul McMillan
Sculpted and guilded frame by Paul McMillan
24" x 30" Image
32" x 38" framed
Oil on Panel
 
No. 104
 
Museum Quality Handmade Frame
Sculpted and guilded frame by Paul McMillan
Frame relief is made of hard plaster
Wood backing / Screwed corners
Frame does not gouge or damage painting surface
Note: this framed artwork comes with a special crate that suspends the frame and artwork to prevent damage to plaster relief for storage and shipping
32" x 38" x2" deep, framed
In this Interdisciplinary Still life Painting, "Shadows," an original oil on panel, I wanted to explore the spirit of the Anasazi's absence as subject matter for the third time. I also wanted to sculpt a frame that matched the one as subject matter in the image of the painting. First I wrote a song at Natural Bridges Park, Utah, in an Anasazi ruin after hiking the canyon trail which was like a great hall filled with petroglyphs as writing on the wall. Then I painted the first version (16" x 20" photo n/a), then the second No. 73, then I painted this painting No. 104, which is the third version in this series, this one having a matching sculpted and guilded frame.
 
SHADOWS
 
Only the clouds cast the shadow
of the Buffalo on the ground.
 
In a great hall on a canyon wall the Anasazi left
their magic message for us all.
 
Love your mother earth for all
that life is worth.
 
We have spread ourselves thin into the wind, and we're
wandering with the spirits until we're back again.

Paul McMillan
 
 
(I hope to post the copyrighted melody at some point)

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