Two T's Manitoulin
  Two T's Manitoulin is the first full colour print which I published. This image tells the story of a fading past. Our old barns and historic vehicles are quickly and silently returning to the landscape. I combined the image of Jack Ingram's barn on Manitoulin Island with the image of two model T Fords which I found years earlier, west of Maple Creek, Saskatchewan.
   My first antique car restoration project was a model T, tall coupe, of the same vintage as the 1926/27 sedans shown in this print. These are portrayed exactly as I found them sitting side by side. I chose to stop the image at the edge of the cars, in the painting, to create the feeling to the viewer, that you must walk between the cars to get into the picture. We all would like to know what other treasures might be stored in Jack's barn and the mental desire to get between the cars to check it out is certainly there. You must also wonder what it was like on the farm when the young farm kids cut the top off the T on the right to make a hot rod and also added the red paint to the fender edges to race-it -up. They must have spent hours buzzing around the farm yard imagining themselves to be in the Indy 500.
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