Rain

Rain comes from Travis Bickle's monologue in Taxi Driver, his wish that "someday a real rain" will come and wash the city's streets clean. It is the voice of a lonely man slowly turning his isolation into rage. The painting finds Travis in a dark cinema, hand pressed to his face, lit by the glow of the screen. Uncut Frames turns to the scenes we carry with us long after the credits roll and, like an uncut take, lets them run past their edges. Here small points of light drift out of the scene and are painted by hand across the terracotta frame, like the city lights that follow him everywhere.