July 21st, 2012
Cox Reservation, Essex Greenbelt, Essex MA
Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20 in

If you’ve noticed I’ve been quiet of late about my most recent work, it’s because I’ve been quietly getting sick of what I’ve been doing. I endeavored a difficult vista this week in hopes that it would give me a new way of seeing things, a new way of showing them. I have a feeling that this one may be more appealing to me when I’ve forgotten what the scene I was painting REALLY looked like, and I can just see the painting as it is, and not as what it isn’t. The only other thing relevant to mention about this one is that when I started it I had Johnny Cash’s version of “I see a darkness” running through my head; and by the time I was finishing the chorus had blended with another memory, and the combination ran thus: “I see a darkness, oh no I see a darkness – and Lo, into the darkness there came a great Light”