The work of Toronto based artist Tony Romano reflects his ongoing interests in narrative, popular culture and philosophy, and his practice involves reinventing the formal strategies of cinema in works that explore concepts of love, city and identity. The Inward Morning (pictured) is a sculpture inspired by the artist’s interest in the American Transcendentalist movement and a poem with the same name by Henry David Thoreau.

The sculpture, using the poem as a script for its construction, projects an infinite forest of mirrored boxes metaphorically recalling the Transcendentalist belief that the essence of spirituality lies with in the human character through the practice of life and inward reflection.

For click/shift/enter at Marcia Wood Gallery Atlanta, Tony Romano has created a second edition entitled The Inward Morning variation #2. This new work continues to use Henry David Thoreau's "The Inward Morning" as a source of inspiration. The Inward Morning variation # 2 develops Romano's explorations into the philosophy of the transcendentalist movement and his interest in the concept of a forest and its transformation, with the seasons as a metaphor for the internal world of the individual.

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