I Remember That II

From the Artist

Idraw on real life for my ideas. I think that to do art, there has to be something inside of you like a well, and to do itfor a long time, it should probably be a big well. For instance, I think about dying and how we should be nice to each other while we have the chance. Those things somehow show up in my work and it's easier for them to come out if I'm controlling the myth, rather than telling someone else's story. I mean, Snow White is nice, but there are things in there that bother me!
_{—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records}

My triptychcalledI Remember Thatshows Nova coming to the wedding. She tries to turn Avon around, but he is still infatuated with Belort. Belort brings in the deity to battle Nova. The deity loses and everyone starts on the long journey back to the old land. People have been hurt, but instead of coming home with a lot of vindictive feelings, St. Mar makes them come together. But that's a different print.
_{—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records}

For over 25 years, [Percy Martin] has been producing a series of intricate and magical prints detailing the culture and rituals of his mythological people. Each piece tells a part of the ongoing story and might include the men and women of the tribe, the priests and priestesses, the protective spiritual presence of St. Mar, and the rites of passage symbols of birds and elephants.
_{—Excerpted from https://www.sidwell.edu/retired-former-employees/tributes/~board/news-tributes/post/a-tribute-to-percy-martin, accessed 7-1-21}

Martin is a world-builder. He has created a mythology to rival the Greeks, complete with imagined weddings and feuds, births and rites of passage. Whether through wisps of color so subtle they seem to have dripped off a watery paintbrush or through hyper-saturated scenes where the color screams for attention, Martin's is a fully realized world teeming with life, morality, and ritual.
_{—Excerpted from https://www.sidwell.edu/alumni/magazine/magazine-detail/~board/magazine/post/dream-weaver, accessed 7-1-21}