But in reality it's not really a "Living Room" . . . .  Somewhere between your 40 hour work-week and that of your partner's, running shuttle service for kids' soccer and/or ballet class, getting to the gym, dealing with your sister's "crisis" which consists of nightly hour-long sojourns about her spiritual direction which is of course long-distance over the phone, cooking gourmet frozen dinner and getting the laundry done, when oh when, will you actually enjoy your new, "warm, cosy and inviting" living room?

The Nesting Series is a critique of our consumer culture, typified by the urge to create these nifty, trendy spaces within our homes, yet due to the long work day and double incomes required to pay for everything, they wind up frequently unused and really quite lonely.

No people in these paintings.  Windows hint at the escape not taken.  Take a little time, enjoy these paintings.  Forget about your deranged schedule in the business uber-world, and breathe and feel rested in an environment that is furnished with a sense of serenity and contemplation.

* with acknowledgment and apologies to "Fight Club"

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