2019: Forms & Beings

For the 2019 calendar, Clifford highlighted images derived from hand-painted acetate slides that he began to create while studying animation at Harvard with Derek Lamb in 1967 and 1968.

These slides, conjoined with Lisa Lee Peterson’s weavings, became sources for the LightWeave multimedia installation that toured the Midwest in the 1990s.

January, March, May, September and October all explore the vast universe of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic beings and forms that these painted slides create or reveal.

April and August echo the organics of the 2018 calendar, and June and September are digital transformations of analog sources.

November is a painting in which 12 interconnected archival prints are adhered to wood panels and partially overpainted with acrylics.

February is an evolution based upon Jackson Pollock’s Greyed Rainbow that unveils a realm of spiritual forms and beings quite different from the ones that Peterson accesses through his own direct work.