Fred Voigt Becker regards the world as a place of great excess and great want. He views the visual world as a cacophony of brilliant sounds and colors directly leaping into one another. Nothing is spared. There is nowhere to hide from the aural and visual intensity or variety - it's an endless flood. There is no want and nothing is lacking in this world.

Desire is also a flood, but one that leads to drought. Endless, unsatisfiable greed drive our species to unimaginable extremes of inhumanity, and in the daily, mundane sense create income inequality, hunger, homelessness, and despair.

Would that he could feed us with color! But paintings are not food that fills a hungry belly. Fred's own desire to make great paintings, to be known, drives his ecstatic expressions. At times he thinks it all seems futile, childishly egotistic, and he wants to bury them all in dry dirt. Can you eat of this and be satisfied?

Still, the flood keeps coming.

Beam Through All Gloom, 33 x 33 inches, 2023