| began painting these "channeled landscapes" during 2020's lockdown. It was how I transmuted all the chaotic big feelings inside me into something that made sense— Nature (where chaos has an order beyond what we often see or understand). We can be so binary, defining things as "good" or "bad," "pretty" or "ugly," etc. These Channeled Landscapes present both at once. Nature is all at once.
Chaos and order. Dawn turning to day to dusk to night and again. It is the turning of wheels, life cycling over and over.
When I look at this "Channeled Landscape" I see the depth of night saddled up against the burst of dawn. I see the horizon, golden light reflected off ground and I feel a body of water.
A cool stream. I look at this painting and I feel all the landscapes that ever were and how just about everything can be captured in Nature's brief gorgeous chaos of simultaneous destruction and creation, over and over again.
I didn't expect to paint another Channeled Landscape, and then there it was.
"Channeled Landscape 2025"
18x24" on canvas
Unframed 700.
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