These paintings have been made in the last few years using plein air paintings like I have just made this summer.
I enlarge them from, the oil-site paintings, in Flashe acrylic paint on Arches paper.
Here the forms are abstracted from the more natural and a flatter and more modern surface is made from the information.
These paper paintings I made in 2001 and have used them to make the blowups you see above.
A more developed painting has a figure, this painting is called Buddha for Rudy. Rudy is Rudy Burckhardt, a painter I knew and liked. He had a relationship with the Beat poets and made a photo of himself in the Sierras, sitting zazen, surrounded by beer bottles.
Obviously the painter is looking for something, on some kind of quest. Emerson said, "Natural facts are Spiritual facts." One makes an order of these things one sees.
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