Continue--------> Similar to "Hidden Fortress", I wanted to create a certain kind of harmony using these fragments. However, because of the overly various nature of the reference images, I ended up with creating more tension, which I see as another way of creating harmony.

Dear P Morehead, I worked on "Hidden Fortress" and "AbsdeadBear" at the same time. So it is interesting that you are curious about those two pieces out of all. They both began with my initial interest in the reconstruction of fragments of images as a means to appropriate certain expression on top of representative objects, like a mask. "Hidden Fortress" is more subtle in that the painting still retains many characteristics of suburban landscapes such as houses and the moon. I think the fact that suburb landscape (NJ) is designed to be practical and aesthetically un-intrusive became an easy target for me to create a sense of harmony in the painting without sense of tension or conflict. Also "Hidden Fortress" is a second version of "Night Composition", which I completed several months before. "AbsdeadBear" is, as you can see from the title, began as an abstraction of a bear in a game called, "Neverwinter Nights". I used several other fragments of images like a car, golf target,

Can you please tell me something about The Hidden Fortress and absdeadbear?

Thank you Matt, The work was supposed to be a quick study to experiment with fast,expressive marks , with which I hoped to create a composition of nocturnal suburban landscape. The represented place is mostly imaginary and but has partial reference to the large parking of a church in NJ. I used "Night Parking" as a reference sketch. I will have the better photograph sent directly to your email. kevin

Sorry—I got the artist wrong on the piece i mentioned previously. I am interested in “Night Composition”. Could you give me a better image and tell me more about the painting. Thank you. Matt.

Kevin. I’m interested in your painting “PeaceMaker, Tell Myself That It Is Time to Say Goodbye ”. Do you have a better quality image you could send me? Also, can you confirm the dimensions. Thank you. Matt

hey robert, Was Jason Fox studying there also? Who did you study with?

Make that A'72!

Nice work, Kevin. Good luck from a fellow Cooper grad (Q'72). Robert http://www.robertflorczak.com

Southern Tiger, I am really glad that you like French Night. It is one of my very early pieces from Cooper Union that I have struggled to think, feel, experiment and finally bring onto a canvas. This piece is also my first work that explores 'nocturnal suburban landscape' series in oil painting. In retropsect, the painting reflects my "nocturnal advantures" I frequently enjoyed in solitude since teenage years when I moved to suburban NJ from Seoul, Korea. Without acquaintances, cars, verbal skill or particularly extroverted personality, I used to walk, rollerblade or sing around my town at night. Then I realized how suburbs look much more interesting at night with the multiple light sources that create many siluettes, which I naturally intended to use for my own artistic practice. I did many video/ computer projects with this theme, but as I said before, "French Night" is the first painting on the train.