Fire Cracker Penstemon, Castle Creek

Castle Creek Firecracker Penstemon

Castle Creek

from Maroon Bells and Castle Creek

Painting with the Workshop, Maroon Bells, Aspen

McClure Pass near Carbondale, CO

I remembered this spot from years ago. I got there and it was pretty hazy but the space still spectacular.

I didn't have a large canvas prepared so I painted two small canvases simultaneously which was a large effort going back and forth.

I painted the skies, then the furthest mountains, the middle and then foregrounds back and forth.

Finally got painting. Moab, Utah

It been so very Hot everywhere, and I had the feeling I wanted to make my acrylic on paper studio type painting as I followed my Southern Route. As I get started with the oil paint though I see I want to continue them, as they have their own authenticity.

Castle Creek Road into Moab, Utah and Arches National Park.

I needed to get all my materials in order and I've been traveling with too much in the car, hindering me in this heat. One needs to be very streamlined or this whole thing gets out of control.

Florida Painting

Smoky's through North Carolina

Some thoughts on a Voyage

I mean to make somewhat clearer, the gist of the content that my paintings follow.

It is really what I have gleaned from my study of poetry through the years.  It started with the idea of the Romance Quest which I immediately recognized in my paintings as the exploration of the paint and surface in Dark and Light, that journey which a poem used to make.  I saw this as the same story encoded into a paintings surface.

This cycle from Dark to Light fell back into winter or night with each round. I found the negative connotations as positive as they re-drew and evolved through each revolution.

I saw this in everything such as a quick thought, and then even more so in the moments which passed never to return as I painted a landscape painting.

The whole trip or journey, all these words are so archetypal as to be cliched. This all has been seen by me in the trip across the whole idea or our American land. I repeat it and that now seems the subject of my new paintings. I self consciously look for it in the trip.

I like the high wire like act while traveling. Looking for what might mean, though it all seems to have been found long ago, I continue for that meaning "yet unfound" adding a deeper realization of this ultimate voyage through my life and the resultant paintings.

Taking off from...Montauk

Montauk

I feel like I am backing up taking a running start from Montauk.

I'm out in Napeague having the pleasure of attending a Philip Glass and Jon Gibson concert. They played Facades from Glassworks which they played first in 1981. I made a performance on the beach in Isle Vista using the music as part of a sound track in 1983.

It was so special that I hope it resurfaces as a part in my traveling ahead. It undoubtedly will as Philip's music already has been somewhat a soundtrack for my life.

Starting out here reminds me of all the painting I've already done here that creates the platform I take off from.

I made a bog some time ago trying to remember some of those years.

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