Horizon with Blue #2 is a multi-layered painting made entirely of acrylic paint and a little finely ground pumice added into it to make it sandable. The surface of the painting is a smooth matte finish that is achieved by sanding each layer as it is laid down and dried. It is applied with a rubbery plastic squeegee that allows me to apply a thick and evenly distributed layer of paint. It offers such satisfaction to paint. It is a meditative sort of practice - one that is important to me in each kind of painting. It is important to find that meditative jam - that groove that I can get into and loose my self in the painting, or an audiobook by Malcolm Gladwell, Tim Ferris, or of course, Joyce.
I was inspired to paint this series of landscapes after a cross-country trip where my sister and I moved my father from where we grew up near Detroit to his new home in Denver. I took a lot of photos out of the window and wanted to capture, in a painting, the horizontal movement of traveling cross-country.
From Jack Kerouac’s On the Road - ““Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” ...