Panoramic Quotes

(While he followed his mother`s lead into fashion, his appreciation for fine art hasn`t waned, and, if he had the time, he`d still be painting. For now, he settles for taking snapshots with his digital camera.) I don`t take big panoramic pictures, ... I pay attention to detail. I take (photographs of) rose petals, the veins of leaves and tiny animals like ladybugs.

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.

`The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.` This caption from Carlos Castaneda is written across the bottom of a painting of a nude man, who balances precariously on an overhead beam. The caption could serve as the motto of much of Woody`s work, both his figures and his landscapes. If his panoramic landscapes sweep away to a distant horizon and leave you with a heart-stopping sense of your own solitude, his nude figures expose the raw existential isolation at the very core of the human condition.