This painting was produced in 1997, in the first year working producing my Master's Thesis at Cal State University Northridge. I was beginning my search for urban/industrial grit, at night, painted on location.
I remember the erie sounds of the fork lifts moving around inside the plant, and I thought of the movie, Soylent Green, imagining they were making little green biscuits out of dead people.
It was outside the barbed wire fence surrounding the Proctor and Gamble Paper Products Plant in Oxnard California.
Paper Plant Nocturne
18x24 oil/canvas 1997
Collection of the Artist
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