DETAIL of sparse reflections
1:36 PM: i took yesterdays revisions of sparse reflections a bit further today, staying true to the new palette that emerged while working on 10th month last week; more whites & pinks and a much lighter overall feel. taiga’s landscape scrolls and their chinese prototypes are somehow commingling with our landscape here in the baca grande along with, perhaps, fleeting memories of the andros . landscapes i painted for over a decade.
my current internal sense of a global landscape in distress pushes me towards an idealized dreamscape. so that these 3 figures sitting on the earth somewhere in the wilds of the japanese mountains conjures a feeling akin to what they may have felt on fleeing the harsh reality of an always changing oppressive and unpredictable government.