MY SHAPES AND MARKS - 2
When I first moved to Arizona thirteen years ago, it was the sunset that first captured my gaze, puffy clouds and bountiful colors, every single night. I spent the first several years of my time there watching them, documenting them, and just getting lost in them. The painting in the collage photo set below, painted in Arizona, is from five years ago—long after my gaze had turned more to the big blue skies and sun bleached grasses. But even still, its relationship to those Arizona skies and heavy monsoon rain clouds is ever more obvious to me now.
The sunset image in the collage photo set is from last night’s sunset taken from my studio here in New Mexico. The sunset colors, on thick clouds high in the sky, with light caressing the horizon below, is a common feature in sunsets. After taking the photo I was struck by the shapes in it and immediately made the relationship between it and my painting.
Last night’s sunset from my studio in New Mexico and a painting from five years ago in Arizona. …another example of how I see things and how I see nature and places.