The ancient cities of Italy and Greece were built around a center, the mundus, which was a pit covered by a great stone, called a “soul stone.” On certain days, the stone was removed, and the spirits of the dead rose from the pit which established the city’s relationship to its ancestral spirits.
If ever the light could transmute itself into sound, or conversely sound into color, the result would resolve itself into a painting rendered by lifelong Louisiana resident Francis X. Pavy of Lafayette. His palette reflects the brilliant sun-imbued hues of South Louisiana.
LOUISIANA’S PENCHANT FOR easy money and good times trickles down to the melodrama of its citizenry in Francis Pavy’s metal cutout images at Arthur Roger Gallery. These paintings deftly illustrate the ever-increasing urban- and suburbanization of Acadiana.