This past weekend I had the pleasure of traveling to Baltimore, Maryland. Luckily, the annual Fell's Point Festival happened to be there the same time I was. Several artists had their art displayed for pleasure and purchase. The work of Ric captured my attention over the other art showcased. He uses bright, vibrant colors for his pieces to capture the beauty of the universe. This piece, Peacock, among all the others in his collection is composed of unique shapes. These abstract, non-iconic shapes and lines allow us to concur that this artist creates art in the range of "the picture plane," in accordance to the pictorial vocabulary of visual arts. In this particular style, the odd shapes and colors aren't clearly representative of anything. They are merely ink on paper. This type of art allows the imagination of each individual to decide what it wants the piece to mean; to each their own. As for Ric, it states on his website that his work represents spiritual reflection. However, without an individual reading such information, they could have interpreted this artwork in a completely different way. When I first set sight on Peacock and observed it, it appeared to me as people dancing in the wind. I suppose my interpretation is in the general area of spiritual reflection. By refusing formal training, Ric's art is absolutely one of a kind.
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