18 October 2025
Across a creek (working title): composed from photos of greenery blurring by out the window of the shuttle to Elaina and George's wedding in Dundee Oregon (a couple months ago) as the winding road up the mountain crossed over Hesse Creek. This work's main concern turned out to be an exercise in the organization of perception. A balance between visual solidity/focus and active, physically-informed brushwork. A cross appeared in service of unifying the central trees (and the composition as a whole), yet its form is defined by the negative space between its constituent parts, which lands on a question of representation and visual memory that feels new to my vocabulary.