The Director

In The Director, Glenn Gordon delivers a haunting and enigmatic vision where landscape and symbolism collide. Painted in 1988, this surreal composition features a solitary figure standing atop a strange, skeletal platform—part throne, part scaffold—overlooking a desolate shoreline. Clad in an austere robe and headdress, the figure extends one arm outward, commanding or pointing toward a future unseen.

The scene is sparse yet charged with tension. Jagged bones, barren trees, and distorted shadows suggest decay and transformation, while the open sky and distant forest offer a glimmer of something just beyond reach. The Director can be read as a metaphor for control, isolation, or existential purpose—its meaning as mutable as the dreams it evokes.