Backdrop

Long Day

Between Worlds

Texture

Theme of the week: water as not-water

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Fire

For Elise

Good luck with everything, E. B.! I'm excited about what's next for you, and hope you get some restful  let's-watch-the-sun-set-on-the-Hudson moments mixed in with the hard projects you're tackling.

5:49 PM

Fire and Ice III

See #2 in series here

A Study in Blue

Alright, friends - of these three compositions, which is your favorite? 

February on the Hudson III

See #2 in this series here

February on the Hudson II

See #1 in the series here

February on the Hudson

Invisibility

Fire and Ice II

See first in series here

Fire and Ice

Retreat

Wait IV

Part of this series

Wait III

Part of this series

Wait II

Some of you may remember "as we wait" - if not, you can find the images here: 1 2 3 4 5 6.

Back then, the train was the focus, green with Hopper and Gatsby's lonely light, blurred in its passing. The drawings were made across several sittings, after long conversations. Even before the painting began, hours were spent alone, waiting for the Metra to pass to capture image studies. Through it all, there was an undercurrent of waiting, of slowness, of passing hours. Of waiting.

All of those images were slowly made, saturated in time, conceptually allowing one moment to blur into and inform the next, so capturing the sense of not only Seeing but also Time.

I want to continue that in my current work, and see threads of it through the last year's photography. Through the medium of time, the familiar subjects are rendered unfamiliar, asking for more consideration - more time - from the viewer. Along those lines, R. S. Thomas wrote:
Life is not hurrying on to a receding future,
Nor hankering after an imagined past.
It is turning aside like Moses
To the miracle of a lit bush

May my work always be an act of turning aside to see miracles. Or at least of turning aside to See.

Wait