Drift Painting

“She had been walking a long while. Her senses were wide, straining against the night and the snow-covered stillness. As she walked, the air cooled her waking thoughts and her mind wandered…” This painting is part of series I call "night fictions." If written, many of their stories could begin this way. In them, the viewer reads the story of our protagonists. Their mental states are alluded to by facial expression, gesture, and mark. The characters are as unaware of each other as they are of audience; each is lost in a world of the senses, absorbed within their own thoughts and emotions. Their situations are remarkably parallel. Thematically, the series speaks about longing, the love of being lost, the excitement and apprehension of what might be found in the dark. Winter, wilderness, night are all metaphors for the unknown, the Sublime. This series originated from my own nights of wandering in winter snow. Visually, the series adapts iconography from German Romanticism and Italian Renaissance portraiture, and conveys it with an artificial light situation common in contemporary theater and cinema. This painting is oil on a cradled birch wood panel, unframed and ready to hang.

Painting:Oil on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:28 W x 22 H x 1.2 D in

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