READY FOR BLAST-OFF.(Brief Article)

From: Interview | Date: December 1, 1999| Author: SZABO, JULIA | Copyright information

He is Baby New Year, Little Buddha, Saint Michael, the blown-glass cherub for a Christmas tree top. He's the still center of an allegorical canvas shaped to resemble a Gothic arch--or an alien spacecraft nestled in a Twilight Zone landscape. He is Rocketboy, a Norman Rockwell tyke in a comically homemade rocketship suit, and he inhabits a lush forest of symbols recalling Van Eyck, Watteau, Arthur Rackham, and Thomas Hart Benton. He appears vulnerable--note the Band-Aid on his brow,...

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