Robert Coberly

Allusions (the in-between)

August - September 2017

“On their long sojourns, the French Voyagers had a simple diet. A large pot with a fire underneath was constantly stirred during the trip. Lard, dried yellow peas, and whatever game, fish, veggies, etc... were mixed into the water. The soup or porridge was done when the spoon stood up on its own. In my case, it comes out in oil paint. […] Throw-ins can include anything. Here it involves my early childhood fascination with industrial St. Louis of the early 1960s. Maps, the sky, spaces, and the realm of the ‘in between.’ Other matters play in always; but what the viewer gets and brings in is most important.” —Robert Coberly

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