Painting-A-Day: September 5, 2013

Acrylic on Archival Gessobord with 3/4" Birch Sides, 12x12", Ready to hang!

Today I am featuring a painting that I love. This painting from May 24th suggests prairie grasses, distant fields, and tumultuous skies. Last weekend we were driving up to northern Minnesota and at a certain point you are surrounded by trees, mostly pine, on both sides of the road. You can only see any distance straight ahead. Enveloped. Closed in. I didn't like it. It felt claustrophobic to me. I am used to wide open spaces where you see the distant horizon, where you see the whole sky full of a storm's fury or sunsets of exquisite color. I think we all feel "right" in the vista we grew up seeing. Those enveloping pines probably feel comforting to those who grew up in it. Cocoonish.  It's always good to try to understand that people come from different places with different ways of viewing the world. We are all colored by our experiences.  It's good to get inside another experience and open yourself to a new way of looking at something. It can solidify your own view but can also open your mind to looking at something from another perspective. So, I embraced the pines, took deep breaths of their piney goodness and discovered... I like it when I am standing in their heady midst, but I still love the open prairie skies best.

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$100 for this original painting, ready-to-hang, plus $15 shipping and handling.