For both his style and subject matter, Collins has been described by critics as one of the most unique painters whose work is exhibited in Santa Fe. His oil-on-linen paintings and a new body of mixed media paintings on photographs bear homage to the transcendence that can be found in compassionate contemplation of the cycling and balance between enlightenment and darkness, creation and destruction, order and disorder, both in the human condition and the natural world.
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It has been said that his paintings have an American spiritual resonance with the paintings of Anselm Kiefer or Gerhard Richter. They are conduits to memories that lie deeply buried in our childhood psyches as well as universal, archetypal memories of the sublime. In his paintings we find Blakean beauty resident in the terrible. An imagistic light seems to come from within, augmenting the sense of mystery and transforming metaphorical fields of darkness into parables of hope for the future. Primitive art objects collected by his father gave him early exposure to strong and direct expressions of the supernatural within the natural environment of daily life.
Though these influences were important to the developing foundations of his art, his distinctive style originates from his personal conception of light, value, color and lines. Ideas emerge from his dreams, revealing visions of the conscious and unconscious mind.
Twilight Zone – The Crossing (10/08/88)
Since the mids he has directed the Lowell Collins School of Art in Houston; he has also held positions on the art faculties of several universities. Seeing the station-wagon make a turn and then,out of camera rage, fall down an embankment it bursts into flames with the girl still in it! As it turns out it's only Father Mark who sees all this and no one else!
After yet another incident of the station-wagon bursting into flames with only him seeing it Father Mark goes to his room at the church and checks out a number of old photos of himself, before he became a Catholic Priest, and this girl Kelly besides the station-wagon that he's been seeing. It's there and then that Father Mark realizes what he did back then and what he has to do now to correct a terrible mistake he made some 20 years ago.
It was that mistake that made Father Mark become a priest and work himself almost to death to correct it! In him knowing that this time around he'll do the right thing and end up saving both his soul and Kelly's life. The only problem is that the ending doesn't really fit "The Twilight Zone," so much as an episode of "One Step Beyond.
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In this episode, tireless local priest Ted Shackleford is in the final stages of raising enough money to build a children's hospital, but becomes distracted by visions of a fiery car crash from his past. Ralph Phillips' script sets up a neat mystery as to why the priest is having these visions, and invests the character with the depth to make us want to know more -- particularly by making it clear that the priest knows the identity of the shadowy figure in the car, and that his non-stop charitable work is an outgrowth from some hidden guilt. Shackleford's low-key performance is impressive as well, giving us the portrait of a good man who doesn't believe he's as good as he really is.
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Gerard Parkes also offers some good support as the kindly monsignor who tries to get Shackleford to slow down. As I noted earlier, the episode is clearly effective on its own terms, but it's not quite a "Twilight Zone. That character flaw, however, is hardly a mortal sin nor is it particularly unique , and one gets the feeling that his extensive good works since that time would have more than atoned for that single moment of weakness.
Instead, the end of the episode seems to play as though he's accepting death as a form of punishment for this flaw -- something that throws the concept of "The Twilight Zone" somewhat out of balance. Even if one doesn't read it as a punishment, the character's death at an early age would appear to cut him off in the prime of his life, eliminating the possibility of him doing any further good works; the character appears more in need of rest and absolution than a premature end to his life.
Indeed, a more fitting "Zone" ending might have involved the shadowy figure giving him that absolution, and allowing him to live his life and do more good works without the excessive guilt. As it is, the episode is definitely worth a look, with Shackleford's performance definitely worth the time invested. Scarecrow 29 August Ted Shackelford is anguished, guilt-stricken priest still internally mourning the loss of a girl he loved when younger to a car wreck for which he was unable to save her.
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That event the girl in the red station wagon, still for a few seconds before driving around a curve and over a hill, dying in a fiery crash relives everyday to the priest, further encouraging his grief. Despite raising two million for a hospital wing, being responsible for children school and a rejuvenated thriving church community, the priest continues to languish in his misery. His superior, Monsignor Perot Gerard Parkes , along with the maidservant Bunty Webb , just want him to take a break and get some rest. Shackelford The Young and the Restless is spot-on with the beleaguered priest haunted and tormented, and the actor gives that character his all.
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It is all there on that hang-dog face that cannot seem to do enough to balm the sores of an accident resulting in a death he possibly could have prevented. The episode effectively lays out what a tragic event from the past can do to someone unable to relinquish it from his psyche.