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This painting was created for a gallery in Savannah, Georgia in 2000. Another large scale painting. The title ?Birds of Appetite? came from Zen and the Birds of Appetite by Thomas Merton, which I was reading, and it expressed many ideas congruent with my own, including freedom from investment in outcomes. This work created an environment in which the viewer could be immersed. A place mined from the most remote of locations, created in the hope that it might stir an awareness of those same places in the viewer. The painting was designed to fill the thirty-six foot long wall of the Bergen Hall gallery from end to end. The panels were screwed flush to the wall so that the painting would be less distinguishable from the wall itself, and it became less of an object and more a part of the environment, surrounding the viewer with its monumental scale. The freedom of working on this scale influenced the outcome and is conveyed in the final piece. The physicality of applying paint on such a large piece, and painting on a surface that seemed to expand endlessly, was exciting.

Curator's Statement

Any piece by Sean is a masterpiece and everyone should have one of these pieces in their collection. And for the person (or Museum) with 36 feet of wall space to spare "Birds of Appetite" is amazing. - Suzy Greenberg

Artist, Painter

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