Cass Francis

In the Dark

Movie House

Passerby

My creative work often explores fractured identities, distant connections, and a sense of place in a highly mediated world. This series of acrylic paintings are mostly based off photos I took while exploring my home state of Texas. “Movie House” represents a beautiful theater near Sundance Square in Fort Worth. In reality, the theater is surrounded by urban downtown buildings—but I stripped those out of the painting to leave it with an isolated and slightly spooky feel. “In the Dark” does not come directly from a single photo or real place, but instead is a play on how in our media-saturated world sometimes media play reflections of us for its own sake. “Passerby” is a tryptic showing the different points of view of a building I photographed in Marfa, Texas. As with the movie theater, I stripped out the surrounding buildings and landscape to isolate the building and make it seem dreamier and more surreal. Pretty simple, this one just means that things change shape as you pass them by.

These pieces were featured in Volume 2, Issue 2. Click here to explore other pieces from this issue.