John McNamara
  • Recent Paintings
    • "Worlds" >
      • "Seduced"
      • "The Inextricable Hold" (2nd version) >
        • "Surveillance" >
          • "Breakdown"
      • "Where is Matthew Barrall?"
      • "The Modernists" >
        • "Five of All" 24" x 36" oil/paper/panel 2019
        • "Secular Sanctuary" 48" x 72" Oil/Paper/Panel 2019
        • "It's What's Under the Hood that Counts"
        • "The Trail of Seduction" >
          • "Where the First Kiss Leads" >
            • "Exit 18: Vigil for Jay DeFeo" >
              • "KINGDOM' >
                • "Real Light" 40" x 48" Oil/Paper/Panel 2001
                • "Safety"
                • "Speed and Compression"
                • "Futility"
                • "Disease"
                • "Echo"
                • "Lost"
                • "Integrated Polarities"
                • "Utilitarian Abstraction"
        • "Empathy"
      • "Tripping"
      • "The Showoff and the Introvert" >
        • "The Inextricable Hold"
      • "Encounter"
      • "The Doubt in Belief" >
        • "The Clan"
    • "Anticipation is Greater than Realization" >
      • "Deep" 30" x 90" Oil/Paper/Panel 2017/18 >
        • "Encroachment"
        • "5.18.16"
        • "The Rigor of Facade"
        • "Let's Twist Again Like We did Last Summer" >
          • "The Modernists" >
            • "Monsters" 36" x 48" o/p/p 2019
            • "The Suitors" >
              • "WoW" 20" x 24" oil/paper/panel 2013 >
                • "Running" 24" x 30" oil/paper/panel 2013
                • "Echo"
                • "Cycle" 30" x 40" Oil/Paper/Panel 2017 >
                  • "Apex" 30" x 20' oil/paper/panel 2013 >
                    • "Compressed"
                    • "Magic" 20" x 30" oil/paper/panel 2013
                • "Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained" 9" x 12" oil/paper/panel 2013
                • "Transcendent Banality" >
                  • "Unreal"
                  • "Solitude"
                • "Glimmer" 36" x 48" o/p/p 2019
                • "Death Valley" 12" x 12" oil/paper/panel 2013
              • 5.10.16 - Landscape >
                • "Bridges and Plumbing"
                • "The Man"
                • "Possibilities" 20" x 30" oil/paper/panel 2014
              • "Death on 5th Avenue"
              • "Second Mortgage"
              • "Leveled"
              • "Fracture"
              • "The New Sculpture"
              • "Climbing"
              • "Duped"
              • "The Collapse of Pretense" >
                • "The Showoff and the Introvert"
              • "Mergers: 10 Paintings - 20Portraits" >
                • "Wise Ass"
                • "Century" 40" x 30" oil/paper/panel 2017
                • "Back to Square One"
              • "The Grid"
              • "Beauty and the Beast"
              • "Optimism's Promise" 36" x 48" O/P/P 2019
              • "Second Life"
              • "Moment"
              • "Monday"
              • "Landscape"
            • "Mixing It Up"
            • "Untitled" (after Richard Hamilton and Robert MCHale)
          • "The Art World"
      • "The Return of Jay" >
        • "White on Color" >
          • "10 Moments from the Twentieth Century"
          • "The Long Shot" >
            • "Survival of the Fittest"
          • "Encroachment" >
            • "Battle"
            • "The Idolatry of Longevity"
      • "Philosophy" >
        • "Beauty"
        • "Generic Reconstitution"
        • "Faceoff" >
          • "The Conservator" >
            • "Pathway"
        • "Minimalism's Maximalism" >
          • "Flashback"
          • "Larry's Place"
        • "Lost"
        • "Transcendence" >
          • "Old Time Painting"
        • "Fifty Times the Area"
        • "Lost" >
          • "The Flow" >
            • "Tug of War"
            • "Unreal"
            • "Who's on Top?"
      • "The Conspiracy"
      • "Stay in Tonight"
      • "Asleep at the Wheel"
      • "Lights Out"
      • "Trip"
      • "Queen of the Feminists"
      • "Lost"
      • "Untitled" (after the painting titled "Anticipation is Greater than Realization, 20" x 30", 2013)
      • "The Loss of Memory: The Inability to Forget 24" x 30" o/p/p 2019
      • "Memory"
      • "Anthroland" 48" x 40" Oil/Paper/Panel 1998
      • "Weather System"
      • "Seduced Again"
      • "Flux" 12" x 32" oil/paper/panel 2013
      • "Intersection"
      • "Obsession"
      • "Unreal"
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"Optimism's Promise" 36" x 48" O/P/P 2019

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The oldest house in Aveyron, France. Now known as Maison de Jeanne, it was built during the 13th century.

Mobil hippie house in Berkeley. In 1970 Berkeley passed a law not allowing people to live in a converted van or truck.

A house abandoned in a forest in Stradbally, Ireland, as well as a VW converted and abandoned as a living abode.

The piece centers around Jung's metaphor of the house as the interior self, with the rooms signifying parts of the mind/self. I was intrigued by Clare Cooper's paper titled, "The House as a Symbol of the Self."

There is a tribute to the Chinese Lanterns Festival. For example, lanterns are now often made in the shape of animals. The lanterns can symbolize people letting go of their past selves and getting new ones,[6] which they will let go of the next year. The lanterns are almost always red to symbolize good fortune.

​The ovals located in the left are signifiers of different skin tones



Clare Cooper  University of Ca., Berkeley House as a Mirror of Self presents an unprecedented examination of our relationship to where we live, interwoven with compelling personal stories of the search for a place for the soul. Marcus takes us on a reverie of the special places of childhood--the forts we made and secret hiding places we had--to growing up and expressing ourselves in the homes of adulthood. She explores how the self-image is reflected in our homes/ power struggles in making a home together with a partner/ territory, control, and privacy at home/ self-image and location/ disruptions in the boding with home/ and beyond the "house as ego" to the call of the soul.
As our culture is swept up in home improvement to the extent of having an entire TV network devoted to it, this book is essential for understanding why the surroundings that we call home make us feel the way we do. With this information we can embark on home improvement that truly makes room for our soul.
  • Recent Paintings
    • "Worlds" >
      • "Seduced"
      • "The Inextricable Hold" (2nd version) >
        • "Surveillance" >
          • "Breakdown"
      • "Where is Matthew Barrall?"
      • "The Modernists" >
        • "Five of All" 24" x 36" oil/paper/panel 2019
        • "Secular Sanctuary" 48" x 72" Oil/Paper/Panel 2019
        • "It's What's Under the Hood that Counts"
        • "The Trail of Seduction" >
          • "Where the First Kiss Leads" >
            • "Exit 18: Vigil for Jay DeFeo" >
              • "KINGDOM' >
                • "Real Light" 40" x 48" Oil/Paper/Panel 2001
                • "Safety"
                • "Speed and Compression"
                • "Futility"
                • "Disease"
                • "Echo"
                • "Lost"
                • "Integrated Polarities"
                • "Utilitarian Abstraction"
        • "Empathy"
      • "Tripping"
      • "The Showoff and the Introvert" >
        • "The Inextricable Hold"
      • "Encounter"
      • "The Doubt in Belief" >
        • "The Clan"
    • "Anticipation is Greater than Realization" >
      • "Deep" 30" x 90" Oil/Paper/Panel 2017/18 >
        • "Encroachment"
        • "5.18.16"
        • "The Rigor of Facade"
        • "Let's Twist Again Like We did Last Summer" >
          • "The Modernists" >
            • "Monsters" 36" x 48" o/p/p 2019
            • "The Suitors" >
              • "WoW" 20" x 24" oil/paper/panel 2013 >
                • "Running" 24" x 30" oil/paper/panel 2013
                • "Echo"
                • "Cycle" 30" x 40" Oil/Paper/Panel 2017 >
                  • "Apex" 30" x 20' oil/paper/panel 2013 >
                    • "Compressed"
                    • "Magic" 20" x 30" oil/paper/panel 2013
                • "Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained" 9" x 12" oil/paper/panel 2013
                • "Transcendent Banality" >
                  • "Unreal"
                  • "Solitude"
                • "Glimmer" 36" x 48" o/p/p 2019
                • "Death Valley" 12" x 12" oil/paper/panel 2013
              • 5.10.16 - Landscape >
                • "Bridges and Plumbing"
                • "The Man"
                • "Possibilities" 20" x 30" oil/paper/panel 2014
              • "Death on 5th Avenue"
              • "Second Mortgage"
              • "Leveled"
              • "Fracture"
              • "The New Sculpture"
              • "Climbing"
              • "Duped"
              • "The Collapse of Pretense" >
                • "The Showoff and the Introvert"
              • "Mergers: 10 Paintings - 20Portraits" >
                • "Wise Ass"
                • "Century" 40" x 30" oil/paper/panel 2017
                • "Back to Square One"
              • "The Grid"
              • "Beauty and the Beast"
              • "Optimism's Promise" 36" x 48" O/P/P 2019
              • "Second Life"
              • "Moment"
              • "Monday"
              • "Landscape"
            • "Mixing It Up"
            • "Untitled" (after Richard Hamilton and Robert MCHale)
          • "The Art World"
      • "The Return of Jay" >
        • "White on Color" >
          • "10 Moments from the Twentieth Century"
          • "The Long Shot" >
            • "Survival of the Fittest"
          • "Encroachment" >
            • "Battle"
            • "The Idolatry of Longevity"
      • "Philosophy" >
        • "Beauty"
        • "Generic Reconstitution"
        • "Faceoff" >
          • "The Conservator" >
            • "Pathway"
        • "Minimalism's Maximalism" >
          • "Flashback"
          • "Larry's Place"
        • "Lost"
        • "Transcendence" >
          • "Old Time Painting"
        • "Fifty Times the Area"
        • "Lost" >
          • "The Flow" >
            • "Tug of War"
            • "Unreal"
            • "Who's on Top?"
      • "The Conspiracy"
      • "Stay in Tonight"
      • "Asleep at the Wheel"
      • "Lights Out"
      • "Trip"
      • "Queen of the Feminists"
      • "Lost"
      • "Untitled" (after the painting titled "Anticipation is Greater than Realization, 20" x 30", 2013)
      • "The Loss of Memory: The Inability to Forget 24" x 30" o/p/p 2019
      • "Memory"
      • "Anthroland" 48" x 40" Oil/Paper/Panel 1998
      • "Weather System"
      • "Seduced Again"
      • "Flux" 12" x 32" oil/paper/panel 2013
      • "Intersection"
      • "Obsession"
      • "Unreal"