California Cruising From Pasadena To The Desert

I am an Abstract Expressionist. I express life through my art. In December 2021 I took a long drive on Highway 210 and then Interstate 10 from Pasadena, CA to the desert towns in the Palm Springs, CA area. If you ever wanted to get inside the mind of an artist, if you look at the backgrounds of this painting, you can see my artistic expressions of the Angeles National Forest and later Mount San Jacinto. The many stems and shapes reflect the variety of things I saw along the way, but the busyness shows the impact all the hundreds of cars in the backed up lanes of traffic—on both sides of the highway—had on me. It was an interesting trip with lots of amazing natural beauty and mazes of human challenges.