Painting In Tongues
What comes after Z?
Stephen M. Skaar 2007, Acrylic on Canvas, 37" x 56"
How can we possibly evoke the new with no tools at our disposal but our existing alphabet and vocabulary? Doctor Seuss seems to speak of a similar conundrum in his classic treatise, "What comes after Z?" As much as any of the other explanations offered here, "Z" may actually be the genesis of my longtime desire to bring these strange character sets and their associated animals to life. Here we reintroduce the Glass Bead Game, grow Concepts By Accretion.
