Wolf Man In Forest

These paintings start as dreams. Each oil portrait reinterprets a dream image of a man turning into a wolf, and the series follows that change through its stages in a dark forest.

The transformation is involuntary, so the feeling is one of confinement and restraint. The figure is bound to a form he did not choose. The wolf form also brings its own abilities and works as a kind of disguise, letting the character act in ways the man could not.

There is absurdity and humor in the way the figure is posed among the trees. That is meant to stay with the viewer the way a dream lingers after waking.