Story:
Well, the original "Fly Paper"
was made of dollars. Here is another version with
international notes. The original Fly Paper, 1991,
is posted bellow. It is the first painting of mine
which was sold as a limited print and poster. While
the piece was still displayed in my gallery, people
would congregate around it. This fascinated the
then yet mayor to be Mr. Gelber who was on a hand
shaking tour, commenting; "Those people are
like flies stuck to fly paper". I thought this
to be an appropriate title for my painting.
The FlyPaper, 1991.
Please read what Jim Tommaney wrote about
it in the original text written for the greeting
card version:
Fly Paper
Copyright 1991
This
extraordinary image ricochets within our minds like
a loose cannon aboard a ship. Seductive in it's
simplicity, it indicates that the pull of money
rivals gravity in it's power. It suggests that greed
can fill a personal horizon, as the image fills
the painting. It hints of a lunar god of currency
as composed and sedate as any other god.
The
image resonates of alien dominance, of the implacability
of fate, of the ebb and flow of fortunes, of submission
to obsession. There is the faint echo of possible
benevolence in the neutrality of the image, looming
large to all rather than seeking a single sacrificial
victim.
If
the image flickers into that of a spaceship, will
it take prisoners? To what planet will it sail,
fueled by self-generating finances? Will it disappear
one day, as mysteriously as it arrived, leaving
the enigma to historians?
Or
is it a metaphor for America, its ripe fullness
to be followed by descent into crescent silver,
as our currency and our lives are devalued. The
paintings make no judgment.
Pierre
Marcel's objectivity records things as he sees them,
with no need for elaboration. The soul of the viewer,
as it's irresistibly enticed into the picture, must
and does bring its own reference points.
Jim
Tommaney, 1992
