Some paintings followed later that year. I painted alot of them back in NYC in a loft I sublet in Williamsburg.
The next paintings included a vase shape and the circles that were overlayed the earlier paintings became a compositional factor in landscape compositions of the Lagoon.
Most of the paintings were painted at the Lagoon part of a tidal basin emptying into the Pacific Ocean.
Vivian Raynor at the NY Times wrote:
Gregory Botts, who believes ''our culture to be life-threatening,'' is represented by a single black-and-gray canvas nearly nine feet square. An Expressionistically painted image of a wasteland and, perhaps, some straggling figures in the distance, it is dominated by a huge vase form encompassed by two grayish concentric circles. After a while, the vase begins to look like a funerary urn, the circles become a lens and the landscape a world that's become one vast waterlogged slag heap..
I never quite understood what she meant?
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