Extinction ©1991  73” x 122”   oil on canvas

A painting that took shape as I read about The Great Auk. It is disturbing how careless man can be. Many of the stories are about unnecessary brutality, rather than survival. Even today I can't seem to shake the end of the story. "The last pair, found incubating an egg, was killed there on 3 July 1844, with Jón Brandsson and Sigurður Ísleifsson strangling the adults and Ketill Ketilsson smashing the egg with his boot."

This painting is in the world. 

PROJECT: My history of painting
I am going through a box of  slides, containing my early paintings, to scan and share them.