After a long winter of closed doors in my new studio location, I decided to reflect upon my inner feelings in a visual way. The first of the feelings, which I wanted to address, was intimidation. People who came to the studio and actually entered I must thank for their insight as to why when I was working in the window, people seemed very hesitant to enter. My visitors informed me that they didn’t want to disturb me despite the fact I have a sign that invites people to come in and disturb me. This sign is usually located right above my work so that it can be seen. I would become quite intimidated when no one seemed to take the sign seriously. Thus we had people on one side of the window intimidated by the prospect of disturbing me and myself on the other side of the glass intimidated by the lack of response to my invitation.

   I quickly realized that everyone is both the intimidator and the intimidated. If we are the intimidated we must have created some scenario that drew our intimidators to us. Conversely if we are the intimidators our perceived target is drawing us into our action. Intimidation in reality stems from fear of the unknown.

   “Walls of Intimidation” the red hats represent fear, which is the trigger and is felt by both parties. I used a physical confrontation to create a greater sense of drama in the piece. Black and blue were utilized in the main body of the work to emphasize the damage done by the fear that is the mother of intimidation. Intimidation is a phenomenon that has existed throughout history in all levels of society not only in human society but throughout nature itself. Behind the three gangster like characters you will note the subtle folds of another set of intimidators just waiting to get their turn. All things always change.