Another meditation on vision and the high plains... As with "en una noche oscura," I am drawn to the faint line between earth and sky traced where people on the way at one time or another had a mind to stay, and others joined them. In this piece, though, I am thinking of those lines on days -- especially in winter -- when sunlight is so intense that sky and earth are bleached near white. In that light on the plains, the built environment often appears as a line that, though fragile, can be seen with the "lucidity" Camus proposed in The Myth of Sisyphus as a response to the absurdity of human existence.
As with "en una noche oscura," I have painted on unprimed birch with brush and palette knife -- using the same pigments I used in that painting and depending on the grain of the wood to accentuate the complexity of what might appear at first glance to be a solid color.
- Subject Matter: abstract
- Created: December 2020
- Collections: abstracts, acrylic, landscapes