Landscape
Any landscape comprises many landscapes.
Landscape is myriad juxtapositions and blendings, a constellation of fields of various qualities and densities. Masses of stone, bodies of water, expanses of sky, swathes of forest existing together, sharing time and place.
Beyond the physical forms and qualities, what we humans truly value is our experience of landscape. We often focus on the denser forms of the the physical realm, yet each of our senses comprises a landscape of its own. As does our emotions enmeshed with the contours of mind: thought, idea, memory. Every landscape is a constellation of experience.
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What I create are not as much creatures in a landscape as landscapes in a creature.
These landscapes are elemental: I lay them out with words like earth, cloud, mineral, sky, aquifer, soil, flame, dusk, sun, forest…
As I work, I may be imagining looking up through a forest canopy: warmth of branches, bits of sky and leaves, flecks of sun. Or perhaps across dry desert sands and stones, or through dazzling intertidal zones.
I’m melding disparate elements, inviting ever-evolving patterns and sequences to shift across the landscapes of each creature. As nature shows up: a mix of elements sometimes discrete, at times intermixed.