Mac Love’s original concept for Sunday, created shortly after waking from his dream.
Sunday is the first umbrella painting in the Umbrella Series. Mac Love created this painting in 2000-2001 as part of his thesis study of Synaesthesis, the harmony of different or opposing impulses produced by the work of art. Sunday depicts flooded city streets with a ballet of umbrellas defiantly floating amidst an ominous backdrop of apocalyptic fire.
Mac Love describes Sunday as “an exploration of faith, fear, and mortality while reflecting on the looming economic crisis [at the time]. I had this amazing dream of a world of universal symbols and impressions, and found the dance of the umbrellas to be beautiful and captivating. The umbrella paintings have done me a great deal of good in healing, learning, and understanding from the world around me,” says Love.
Sunday was part of Mac Love’s Bachelor of Fine Arts exhibit at Skidmore College, in Saratoga Springs, New York. It was purchased during the exhibition, and currently resides in a private collection in San Francisco, California.
