"And far, far beyond all that lies the home of works of art, those strangely secretive and patient objects, which have their existence among the things of everyday use, among busy human beings, working beasts and playing children."
Rainer Maria Rilke "Works of Art"
On car trips when I was a kid, I liked to look out the window and imagine skiing along the gentle sag of the wires between utility poles. When the view from the highway opened beyond the poles, my focus shifted. Picking something far in the distance, a house or copse of trees, I would keep it in sight for as long as I could, watching as everything else moved in relation to it. That is how I think of my paintings now. They are fixed points of relation while everything around them changes.
Rainer Maria Rilke "Works of Art"
On car trips when I was a kid, I liked to look out the window and imagine skiing along the gentle sag of the wires between utility poles. When the view from the highway opened beyond the poles, my focus shifted. Picking something far in the distance, a house or copse of trees, I would keep it in sight for as long as I could, watching as everything else moved in relation to it. That is how I think of my paintings now. They are fixed points of relation while everything around them changes.
