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Even my landscapes seem to revolve around humans or results of humanity. I am drawn to places that have a history so that even if there are no figures in the painting, there is a sense that the human hand has been present. I paint the fence that has fallen in the snow. I paint the 200-year-old mill that still grinds corn. I paint the farmhouse that has chairs on the porch and an old red pick-up truck out back. Years of people and nature coexisting. The paintings are not of idealized landscapes or sentimentalized houses. I choose not to paint the old tires at the base of the waterfall or the trash littering the country road. I am aware that open, clean landscapes are a vanishing treasure, perhaps that is the reason I want to record what I see. Ugliness is well documented and constantly observed and I choose to point instead to our relationship with the land. We are of the Earth and in many cases we have worked with the Earth to bring forth beauty. "Whatever is true. . .honorable. . .just. . .pure. . .pleasing. . . commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise," I paint those things. |
