| 'American Landscape Photography' explores our culture's obession with self. America intially differentiated itself from Europe by embracing the vast landscape. Now we ignore it, obessesed with self, even though the land and climate are screaming out at us. Flesh and artiface have become the new landscape. The consequences of that may be dire. Some paintings take forever to finisn, this painting I began in the 80's and am currently adding to and reworking. It has been almost entirely repainted. The trick is to keep to the same vision and style I originally intended yet with some improvements, otherwise the whole painting would have to be reinvented. | |
