Lyndon Andrews Painter Patchwork Politics I - painted 1978 acrylic on canvas Private Collection This work grew out of my interest in the history of warfare and camouflage tactics. I decided to combine camouflage patterns into a patchwork design, which set up a kind of dissonance between the nuturing aspect of quilting and "women's work" and the destructiveness and "men's business" of war.
The sources for the camouflage patterns of particular interest to me were the aviation and naval designs.
 Patchwork Politics II- painted 1978 acrylic on canvas Private Collection In the second of this series, I superimposed the plans from a German divebomber model kit.
Again, this showed the dichotomy between my interests as a child such matters, combined with my awareness as an adult of the true cost of these actions. Death and destruction as entertainment.
 Patchwork Politics III - painted 1978 acrylic on canvas, 48" x 48" Destroyed In this work, there are several developments. While I used the same model kit approach, I substituted roses instead of national insignia because I wanted to represnet that everyone loved their countries and roses are a symbol of love.
I also stated layering or playing with transparent effects. This came up again in later works.
 Desert Flowers - painted 1978 Private Collection acrylic on canvas In this work I used the camouflage patterns of WWI era aviation in a composition of flowers. I had become more interested though in abstracting the patterns themselves and less about making statements about war.  Tonal Study - painted 1976 Private Collection acrylic on canvas In this work I started to work with repetition of pattern. These patterns were derived from the lozenge patterns used in WWI German aviation. The designs were printed in the factory on canvas which was then stretched over the wing armature. This struck me as a kind of sculpture. The first use of modern op art.
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