WWW

The original of this painting was a coloured pencil sketch, and was an attempt to portray how a modern building with its skeleton structure of beams and plate glass windows, when seen from below sometimes have a dizzying vertiginous quality. articularly when looking up at building with clouds passing overhead, there is sometimes the sensation that either the building or the viewer is falling. The original sketch was of just the beams, done in 3 dimensions with the exterior surface in pink and the two inner parts of the beam in two tones of grey. Even in the original, the background was light blue to resemble the sky, as in working n the drawing I realized that I was actually drawing a glass & steel building and that the reflection should be the sky. When I came to make a painting of this idea, I could play up the sky element by painting in clouds before the grid of the building was painted on. While working on the painting, I also realized that the grid of the girders also resembled a net over the sky. This could be either a protective net or a constraining net, which in any case led me to think of the possibility that it could stand for the Internet or World Wide Web, with connotations for either better or worse.