Horizons Print

Sometimes I look at old pieces I’ve created and I think, “Hmm, this doesn’t speak to me.” When that happens, I sit down and stop thinking (which doesn’t take much!). With this piece, it was originally an underwater seascape. It was turbulent and dark. And I felt like it needed happiness and order. So I chose gouache over the acrylic and India ink it had before, and I chose lines over the rounded forms it had before. I felt the gouache was bringing back simpler times, the medium I used as a kid in the classroom. And the lines went against the flow of the waves. With that knowledge, which is absolutely not visible in the piece, you have a different view on Horizons. And you can either share what you know, or you can keep the secret to yourself and have this piece be your own little secret orderly garden in this chaotic world.