About the artwork

Genesis I: 6-10 is part of my Southwestern Landscape series. The series embellishes on the visually abstract nature of primordial terrains: the forms of the rocks, rivers, and bushes, the unparalleled palettes, and the various surfaces, from scruffy to lush, craggy to velvety, gushing to billowy.   The subject matter naturally lends itself to being expressed via contemporary abstract art techniques of color, geometry, texture, shape, line, form, and pattern. As the old can look new to the discerning eye, the series easily falls under the umbrella theme of my works, Ancient is Modern, Modern is Ancient.   With the rock formations along the shores of Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevadas during dusk at sunset as the original inspiration, Genesis morphed into an abstracted landscape that invites personal interpretation.  What is that red form with an electric pink streak?  A futuristic aircraft?  The glow of Aphrodite about to rise from within a giant shell?  Are the pink forms at right boats, sails, playful big kisses?  Here's my own take.  God, a Woman -- after separating the Ocean from the Sky -- is beginning to form land.  Her divine light is hot pink because she is having a great time!  As was I when aiming to create a real-time vibrating primordial "in the beginning" experience by juxtaposing bold complementary colors, incongruous shape and forms, and horizontal/vertical applications of thicker paint.