Snail Love

These paintings – made during the Covid year – are about close, but unbridgeable separation. Their title, ‘Snail Love (Catalani)’, references the opera La Wally by Alfredo Catalani. Set in the Alps as winter descends. Two lovers become sundered by the deep snow on opposite sides of the the valley. They sing across the chasm: sound, sight, but no touch. In the paintings these inamorati become snails; determined, persistent…. but unable to jump. I see these images as little love poems. (SC)