Paintings

Whoever you are, go out into the evening,
leaving your room, of which you know
each bit;
your house is the last before the infinite,
whoever you are.
Then with your eyes that wearily
scarce lift themselves from the worn-out door-stone
slowly you raise a shadowy black tree
and fix it on the sky : slender, alone.
And you have made the world (and it shall grow and ripen as a word, unspoken, still)
When you have grasped its meaning with your will, then tenderly your eyes will let it go...

Rilke

Winter Mountain with
Black Trees, 1993
66 x 48 inches

October Wood With Stream,
2001
48 x 72 inches

Arizona Waterway
1994
48 x 66 inches

Vermont Stream
1988
48 x 66 inches

New England Land With Stream
1989
48 x 50 inches

Forest Edge With Red
2000
40 x 42 inches

Wetland With October Color
2001
48 x 50 inches

Rio Grande, Waters Edge
1975
40 x 50 inches

Connecticut Wetlands
2000
48 x 50 inches

Beaverwood
2000
24 x 30 inches

In his essay on painting, Roger de Piles remarked that the word is but the
sign of the thing...Painting, which most vividly represents reality, shakes and penetrates the heart more powerfully than discourse. Finally it is the essence of painting to speak with things, as it is the essence of poetry to paint with words.

I would be at great pains to say where is the painting I am looking at. For I do not look at it as I do at a thing: I do not fix it in its place. My gaze wonders in it as in the halos of Being. It is more accurate to say that I see according to it, or with it, than that I see it.

Merleau-Ponty

Vermont Woods, October
1989
72 x 48 inches

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Dark Pond With
Yellow Field
2000
78 x 50 inches

PAINTINGS

BEAUTY DISLIKES BEING CAPTIVE TO PERFECTION.