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About "A Place Apart"
I moved
to Vermont almost twenty years ago for the most impractical of reasons, love at
first sight. Driving through a small town in the southern part of the state, in
the early morning, on my way to somewhere else, I caught a glimpse of a stream
running through the backyard of an old clapboard cape. Suddenly I was back in
my childhood, in a time before the creeks in my own town were culverted and the
yards subdivided. The Vermont I saw from a car window looked like a memory of
home, and I was hooked.
Two
decades later, I’m still attracted to what I see here every day, to our common,
work-a-day patchwork of small towns, dirt roads, village greens, barn yards and
back fields. Looking carefully at these ordinary places, landscape and memory
intersect for me. While I paint, color, light, and shape combine with subject
to compose a mood and a meaning.
In
these paintings, the mood may be melancholy, the meaning ambiguous. Both mood
and meaning in my landscapes—images of old houses, old
farms, old towns, old trucks--have to do with age and time. Like many
Vermonters, I value the old. Even when a barn has outlived its purpose, we
respect its venerable presence and want to see it endure.
The Japanese
concept of “wabi-sabi” has helped me understand why I find these old, ordinary,
and sometimes broken-down places so beautiful. Wabi-sabi embraces the aged, the
imperfect, the modest, the subjective, the natural, the seasonal, the private,
the mysterious. In Vermont, I find wabi-sabi everywhere I look. In my painting,
I find beauty in the ordinary, and try to hold on to the changing, the
disappearing, the memory, and the first glimpse.
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