Shenzhen 8 is one in a series of ink and watercolor drawings on paper in the spirit of Paul Klee's "taking a line for a walk" that were done when I was teaching at Shenzhen University in China. Here as elsewhere, I set out to paint cities the way I paint mountains, taking the city as a phenomenon of nature and creating a landscape. The lines in this piece are the lines of buildings and cranes rising outside my window in Shenzhen (lines that often made me think of Carl Sandburg's Chicago).

included in the “Out With The NEW & In With The OLD” Exhibition at Arts Illiana Gallery, Terre Haute, Indiana, August 16th, 2024 - October. 25th, 2024