"Bricks" is really two scenes. The small woman on the right looks out of her window in a brick wall at the family on the left. That rather strange grouping consists of two-dimensional man with a realistic face and his wife and child who appear only as outlines. The three of them are standing near their brick fireplace.

This is an example of the simplest way I can use lines to organize a picture, that is, dividing it in two parts, in this case creating separate images of the family on the left and the small observer on the right. The bricks, the observer's gaze, as well as the use of the black lines, tie everything together.

This painting also shows how my outlines can act as a kind of shorthand for showing people. It seems to me that a person's stance shown by the outline and their face captures a great deal about them. Two of the people here are only shown as outlines but that still gives them a strong presence in the work.

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