This painting is a part of Lois Dodd's exhibition Fire: 6 large scale paintings of a house in fire, made after the drawings did on a plain air, before the house which was demolished by fire by its owner and used by the firefighters as a training spot.

The experience of drawing a burning house on a plain air could be an interesting exercise. What was catching the artist's attention? Dodd work a lot with colors, so probably it was one of the main areas of attention for her. How does working in an unusual/stressful environment affect artist's approach to work? Why it was important for Dodd to produce a series of paintings around this house? How the perception of the series affects the viewer in contrast to the perception of the one work? Could it be related to Barthes' "punctum", though not in the context of a photograph, but in the reality, why something feels necessary to be transferred to paper/canvas?

This work is also connected to a memory - the house was in such bad condition, that the owner had no wish to repair it, so he decided to destroy it and build a new one. How can he relate to the paintings of hid destroyed house by Dodd?

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