Plumbing the Depths: Joe Diver

Here’s Looking at You: Diver’s helmet as eye; Air line — umbilical cord; the water — isn’t that where we came from?; dark tonality of “H.L. at Y” make it all the more apparent that “looking is hard enough whether it is inward or outward & then “seeing” is almost impossible” Another the diver paintings is titled “Deep See”
Dutterer Sketchbook 1981