Grenfell Tower

I saw a photo in the New York Times of the defective protective cladding on apartment buildings/blocks of flats where ordinary working class people live. One of those buildings was Grenfell Tower in London, where an enormous number of people died in a fire last year. The NYT photograph struck me for several reasons. First, it was stripped of its humanity, and also at the same time exposed. Second, it consisted of a series of colorful panels in an urban wilderness, panels that seemed to stand in for the entire spectrum of humanity that had lived there. Third, it reminded me of the weird rectangular blocks I painted last year to represent my impressions of Maine last year. So I did some paintings based on that.