21   “Fear”               2001          
Acrylic on canvas, wood     58 x 56”     

I never liked flying, from the time I got to be about 30 years old.   But now, the fear of being in a plane when it crashes was subsumed by the fear of being on the ground when a plane crashes into you.

I had planned to do two of these paintings, one for each of the types of planes that was crashed into the towers.   A Boeing 767 and a Boeing 757.   I wanted to make a painting in the style of the old warplane silhouette posters that sat at the front of the briefing rooms in World War II flying ace movies of my youth.   All of a sudden, the silhouette of these passenger aircraft seemed menacing.