MICHAEL ZIMRING - Triptychs

Historically, a triptych (derived from Greek “threefold”) was a panel painting divided into three sections and hinged together. Presently, triptychs are used in a variety of ways to express an artist’s vision. There are no real rules.

The triptychs that follow emerged from feelings on my part that the underlying image alone didn’t tell the whole story. I felt the story should be told by more than one picture and that the triptych should show a transitory theme consistent with my mental vision. These triptychs represent different types of stories. For example, “Progression” is a story of a guitar player melding with his guitar as he plays, and “Seal’s Dream” is an effort to envision the alien dreams of a slumbering seal.

The bottom line is that if a picture is worth a thousand words, then who knows what a factor of three can produce? Hopefully, viewers of the following triptychs will embrace the pictorial message and will pleasantly ponder whatever meaning it has for them.