Year: 2016
Medium: acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 74 x 84cm (291/8 x 33 1/8 in.)
Acquired from SBI Art Auction, 2022
The pink sky, extremely colorful plants, and light-purple ground, none of them is realistic. Parker's landscapes are always altered into something that can never be seen in reality, yet filling with a tranquil madness that seems obviously natural. The unusual landscape paintings, known as the “Still Lifes” series, are the most characteristic styles in Parker’s works. Although he is also known for his many text-themed paintings, he is raising fundamental questions about the features which a painting represents. In the same way, as letters represent sounds, meanings and words, colors and motifs in paintings are linked with things of some kind, such as green representing plants while repeated curves represent waves. The combination of these meanings is what makes the material of paint and canvas into paintings. Parker intentionally destroys them and reconstructs them with his own logic.
