It's been a long winter in the city making me ready for the summer hikes and backpacking trips that fuel my creativity. Despite this feeling of being stuck I still have found my own ways of "
Walking in the Wilderness" without being in the nature. On a sunny day (which is rare for Portland) I find myself starring into the sky. The blue is always endless as if I could spend my entire life wondering into that distance.
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| My Observations of the Sky |
When I started my research for this painting I was surprised to read that Rebecca Solnit was also spending a lot of time thinking about the sky. In her book "
A Field Guild to Getting Lost" she explains her feeling of the sky in a theory she calls
"The Blue of Distance". For Solnit the color blue represents a space which is unreachable and yet desirable. She explains in the book,
"blue the color that represents the spirt, the sky, and water, the immaterial and the remote, so that however tactile and close-up it is, it is always about distance and disembodiment."page 159
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| My practice includes a lot of time mixing color. Here you will see an image of my palette for the painting "Exploring the Blue of Distance". |
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| An in progress image of "Exploring the Blue of Distance" painting |
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Exploring the Blue of Distance
Oil on Canvas
38in x45.4in
Feb 2016 |
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http://www.meganwainwright.com/
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