- In this Southwestern Night Scene Painting,
"Desert Solitude", an original oil on panel, I am exploring
the solitude in the great expanse of time and space offered by
the desert at night where mountains and mesas rise from the oceanic
desert floor reaching eternally upwards to the clear desert cosmos
of a sky, and in the case of this painting I am in need of a
cloudless sky where the stars are the stars of a night theater
lit by a full moon with a subtle ring formed by ice crystals
high up in the atmosphere. When I need simplicity of an ambient
that offers solitude I often think of the desert in Big Bend
National Park. Therefore the title "Desert Solitude"
The mountain in this night scene painting is Pummel's Peak but
the real subject I pursue is a setting that is quiet and pure
to its' reason for existence, or at least a place that reminds
me that the thoughts get larger as the ring of the universe has
nothing left to turn down in the middle of the complexities of
what an unobservant soul might loosely call nothing but a sea
of creosote bushes and cactus where ten miles is close and the
internal circles of thoughts are unbroken.
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