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I created this image during my senior year in college. It was a massive 4 foot by 8 foot painting on wood. It did not survive the trip out to California so many years later I recreated it on a smaller 10" x 20" canvas. The painting depicts the progression of the death of the childhood innocence we have in the beginning that slowly goes away as we grow up. The windows portray the idea that as we learn more our view of life becomes clearer but with that clarity things might loose some of their beauty like the tree loosing its leaves as the curtain slowly reveals more of the view. The figures portray the loss of this innocence with a zebra rocking horse slowly turning into a generic faceless stick figure as the its stripes become different sized symbolizing a child being taught right from wrong.

PAXTON - "Living a life of Dreams" Paxton Mobley was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1970. At the age of 4 he moved with his family to Athens Alabama where he spent most of his childhood growing up out in the country on the Elk River. From a very young age Paxton showed signs of an active imagination and a growing creative ability and spent his early years exploring the woods and making art. At the age of 13, after his father purchased a Salvador Dali print, Paxton became fascinated with Surrealism and how these past artists and their works gave some justification for his own unique imagination. In 1988 Paxton went on to earn an art scholarship to attend Queens University in Charlotte, NC. By the end of his second year his sights became...