Golden Autumn 2007

Daan Lemaire's 'Golden Autumn' looks to me like it was made by someone wrestling with a different kind of paint altogether; molten glass, dribbled and coaxed into something resembling a tree. The texture! It's all shiny and sort of dangerous. I keep thinking about how the light filters through the translucent amber and red, making the whole thing glow from within. There's this drippy quality, like the glass was caught mid-pour, freezing a moment of fluidity. See where the red clumps near the base? It’s like a memory of a warmer season. It reminds me a bit of Dale Chihuly’s organic forms, but with a more grounded palette. This conversation between control and chaos, between the fixed and the fluid, it’s what makes art so alive, so endlessly fascinating.