Zigzag I

Christopher Brown produces images from personal recollections and from photographs he has taken, creating large-scale paintings and prints featuring irrational, dream-like landscapes where scale and distance produce surreal juxtapositions. In this work, we see severely cropped views of three skaters captured at an angle from above. The silhouette of a man moves into our frame of vision as the skates of two people in front of us move out and into the picture plane. These extreme angles give the viewer a dizzying sense of speed. The reduced palette of dark tones and watery grays with flecks of falling snow heightens the sense of isolation and cold.