Monday, July 30, 2007

Abstract Landscape Arizona Hot as Africa


The size of this on is 10"x10' . It is the same reference as the other three, they can all be hung toegether as the edges work with one another. I am doing some 5"x5" to go with these and so far they all work together.

I am getting ready for another trip to New Mexico. The Navajo Reservation. It is the monsoon season and the light and color is wonderus. I must go and fill this old soul again. Taos is waiting for me!


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Sunday, July 08, 2007

Arizona landscape #3 10'x10"


Arizona again, I am always fascinated by how the color of the land of an area is reflected in the art and"things" that people surround themselves with, even clothes and jewelry. It seems to me that each "place" has an energy that infuses itself into this process. Is this because, do you suppose, that energy wants to be reflected back to itself just as we do? I see myself in the land and the land sees itself in me? Is what I like or dislike about the land I like or dislike about myself. Is it all about knowing oneself so we can accept ourselves and then the "other" without

judgement?

Friday, July 06, 2007

Arizona landscape abstract 10"10"


Arizona. so far I have done 5 of these this is number three. My idea is to have a moving abstract painting of many pieces so they can be arranged in a lot of different ways, this one is 10'x10" on gallery wrap, then there is one so far that is 5"x5" and one almost finished that is 20"x20". I am not so sure it will work but so far so good.

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Monday, July 02, 2007

Arizona Abstract landscape 36"x48:


Another Arizona painting. "Dance to the Dawn" Again, there seems to be an order to my impression of Arizona. A week in Cave Creek has left me with a sense of the color and line of the area. There is so much more to the desert than one sees on the surface. There are times of deep silence just as the light begins to change in the very early morning 4:00 or 4:30 ------- then the singing begins-- birds, insects, deer, coyote, especially the babies. Everyone makes a joy-filled noise to greet the dawn.

The color of the silence seems to be the very deep purple blue--- then the soft warm of the dawn----and the reds and oranges of the full morning. As the sun rises the colors change every few minitues.

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