Hiroshige teaches me about Maine Landscape Paintings.
As I work on a new gold leaf screen, I become inspired by the swirls in the gold and the texture in the substructure. The piece is of the outbound road from Schoodic. For 7 short miles we preserve beauty even if it is slashed by a scar of pavement. Humans seem need to own nature. Driving anywhere there is a view is the human needing ownership or at least use of it preventing others from engaging with it.
Moon Comes Out
I revisit Hiroshige’s scenes along the Tokaido highway. My lesson? Daily human life can happen entwined and complementing nature not dominating and owning it.
My new project is going to be doing a series of screens celebrating the life along Route 1 for which nature is a celebrated back drop.
Ice Cream Castles in the Sky
Pastel on Sandpaper
27 x 39
I hope we as a collective group of people who seem to all be inspired and moved by the views left, think before we throw up another building to own a view or post a private no trespassing sign.
This picture is one of 5 done in pastel of scenes along our still lovely Route 1 here in Downeast Maine.