Gram Parsons Dreaming #4

Circular,16" across.    Acrylic on masonite, ready to hang
Cap Rock, Joshua trees, the cremation fire and smoke, acoustic guitars. 
Shown here against different color backgrounds.

The Gram Parsons Dreamings

"Cosmic American" music founder Gram Parsons died of an overdose at Joshua Tree, California, at the age of 26, in 1973.


His body was supposed to be flown to New Orleans, but Phil Kaufman acquired it at the airport and took it back to the desert, because they had mutually agreed to cremate each other's remains there.


It didn't work out, but the concept is commemorated in the Gram Parsons Dreamings.


The Dreamings


The Dreamtime is a temporary autonomous zone where anything goes. Change is the only constant. Things are consistent through their very inconsistency. Symbolism can be traditional and shared throughout the culture or it can be very personal and subjective.


The Dreamtime reconciles opposites. In the Dreamtime it can be day and night, past and present, simultaneously. Sun and stars, moon and rainbow, can coexist. Things can be seen from inside and outside, from level ground and from the sky above. Abstract and representational; spiritual and material; in the Dreamtime all dichotomies are reconciled.


Like the aboriginal art which inspires them, the paintings have no up-down orientation but can be hung any way. Also like the work which inspired mine, most of the paint was applied with twigs from trees.


This round painting is 16" in diameter, acrylic on masonite, and comes with a hanger. Please keep in mind that colors may show somewhat differently, depending on your screen and other factors.