Perhaps the quality of the attention one brings to bear on something will be better (less contaminated, less distracted), the less one is offered. Furnished with impoverished art, purged by silence, one might then be able to begin to transcend the frustrating selectivity of attention, with its inevitable distortions of experience. Ideally, one should be able to pay attention to everything. Susan Sontag


I have always struggled to come to a form of agreement in my mind between the more literal landscape paintings I make and the abstract paintings I've made. I know, of course, that anything I decide to paint is my work but the two bodies of work only appear to me as both mine after a period of time.

Recently I started a series of new small paintings. I'm thinking of them as both a landscape and an abstract, or an abstract painting that might also be, or actually is a landscape.
Time will tell.

Look for more being posted here soon.

Hemlock Leaves 10" x 8" oil on canvas 2025