October 1998
in Miami Beach
Acrylic
on canvas 36 x 48 inches (90 x 122 cm)
Story:
I wanted to paint from memory a Florida Everglades
landscape with flying Egrets (see Everglades
) I started, with enthusiasm: painted
my sky, my Everglades grass, arranged interesting
little stones on the edges of my road . . . Very
nice . . . then a few days later, in
search of images of Egrets, I re-visited my
friends at Gator's
Park in the Everglades, and I discovered that
there are not rocks to be seen on the shoulders
of any roads there. My Everglades road was looking
then more like a causeway! My visual memory failed
me on this one, looks like I got carried away..
Rather than painting A landscape, I painted
the situation where I was, the quest for solutions
, the anguishes over difficulties, and the peace
felt at overcoming them
I am happy to have not painted a sub-Magritte
, nor a banal Florida Everglades scene. This painting
is revealing of the way I paint at my best.
Later I explored other ideas that will be painted
in the
roads series with less internal debates.
